Plum Cake

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Last week my friends Kairee and Sheryl gave me some plums from a tree in their yard.  Dave ate about 6 of them and then lost interest.  I'm not really a fan of eatting stone fruit in its natural form, but I'm great at using it in something else. [Last weekend it was homemade peach ice cream.]

This weekend I decided we needed a treat so I made a quick plum cake. 

Here is how I did it -

1. First I washed and sliced the plums very thin. (I wasn't sure I was going to have enough.)



Gotta love Jiffy Cake Mixes!

2. Then I put 3 T. of butter in a 9-inch cake pan and let it melt as the oven preheated.
3. I prepared a Jiffy yellow cake mix according to the instructions on the box.
4. After taking the pan out of the oven, I mixed in about 1/2 C. of brown sugar and carefully laid out the plum slices.
5. Finally, I poured the cake mix on top and baked it about 25 minutes. 

Unfortunately, I didn't wait long enough to let the cake cool, before I flipped it out. My top got a little messed up, but it still tasted good.