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🍰 Juicy Plum Cake with Airy Meringue Topping

473 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius with fan setting.
  2. 2. Thoroughly wash the plums under running water.
  3. 3. Cut the plums in half and remove the pits.
  4. 4. Place the soft butter, 150 grams of sugar, a pinch of salt, vanilla sugar, and cinnamon into a large bowl.
  5. 5. Beat the butter and sugar mixture with a hand mixer until creamy and fluffy.
  6. 6. Separate the eggs so that you have the yolks and whites apart.
  7. 7. Add the egg yolks one by one into the butter mixture and stir them in.
  8. 8. Mix flour, starch, and baking powder in a small separate bowl.
  9. 9. Stir the flour mixture briefly and gently into the butter batter.
  10. 10. Grease a springform pan with a little butter.
  11. 11. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the surface.
  12. 12. Distribute the halved plums evenly over the batter.
  13. 13. Bake the cake for about 30 minutes in the preheated oven.
  14. 14. Place the egg whites and a pinch of salt into a tall, clean bowl.
  15. 15. Beat the egg whites with the hand mixer until stiff.
  16. 16. Slowly sprinkle the remaining sugar into the egg whites while beating continuously.
  17. 17. Continue beating until the meringue is firm and shiny.
  18. 18. Take the cake out of the oven once the 30 minutes are up.
  19. 19. Spread the meringue in clouds unevenly over the hot cake.
  20. 20. Put the cake back into the oven.
  21. 21. Bake the cake for another 20 to 25 minutes.
  22. 22. Remove the cake when the meringue has turned golden brown.
  23. 23. Let the cake cool down briefly in the pan.
  24. 24. Cut the cake into pieces.
  25. 25. Serve the cake and enjoy!

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