Rustic Plum Cake

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2007

Rustic plum cake should be an ideal showcase for summer-ripe plums, but it is often dry and short on fruit flavor.

SERVES 6 to 8

TIME 1½ hours, plus 50 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To get to an easy-to-make plum cake recipe with a hefty plum presence, we settled on a batter in which ground almonds replaced some of the flour, for a moist, rich cake that was strong enough to hold the plums aloft. Although Italian plums ...

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