Ingredients: 3/4 cup granulated sugar,1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened (1 stick),2 eggs, room temp.,1 teaspoon vanilla,1 cup flour,1 teaspoon baking powder,couple pinches fine sea salt,4 Blue Sugar Plums,1 1/2 Tbs. Raw Sugar,Freshly Grated Nutmeg- to taste
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Add eggs and vanilla.
- Beat until combined.
- Sift together dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt) and add to bowl.
- Beat until just combined.
- Grease and flour a 9″ spring form pan.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Next, take your plums and find the “seam”. Run a sharp knife down the seam and around the other side to cut in half. Separate the halves and pop out the pit.
- Arrange your plums, cut side down, on top of your cake batter.
- Sprinkle with raw sugar and then grate your nutmeg over the top. (I used ~1/4 of a nutmeg…do it to your taste.)
- Place into preheated oven and bake for 40-45 minutes, or until top is golden and you see edges beginning to pull away from the pan.
- Place on a rack to cool.
- Once pan is cool enough to handle comfortably, run a paring knife around the edge (between pan & cake) and then release the ring on the spring form pan. With a long spatula…or other long, flat utensil…transfer cake to cake plate.
- Dust with powdered sugar if you wish.
