Vienna Plum Cake (4)
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Heat the oven to 180 C, 160 Fan, Gas 4. Butter a 28×20 cm baking tin and line with greaseproof paper.
  2. Cream the butter and sugar together until pale. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla extract.
  3. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together over the mixture and fold in well, just until combined. Spoon the mixture into the baking tin.
  4. Cut the plums around their circumference, twist apart and remove the stone. Arrange the fruit, cut side up, in rows on top of the mixture.
  5. Bake for 30 minutes, or until a thin skewer inserted in the cake comes out clean.
  6. Cool slightly, or to room temperature. Dust with icing sugar, cut into squares and serve.