Tom Thumb Cake With Canned Plums Recipes

Steps:

• Blend sugar and oil, add eggs and beat well. Sift all dry ingredients together and mix into batter alternately with buttermilk. Stir in nuts, plums and vanilla.
• Pour into ungreased 9X13 pan and bake 1 hour at 300°F
• BUTTERMILK ICING: Mix ingredientsin saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook until it forms a soft ball, about 15 minutes. Upon removing cake form oven, poke holes in top with a fork and pour the hot buttermilk icing over it immediately.

Steps:

• Beat butter and sugars, beating well, until creamy. Add egg yolks one at a time and beat very well. Slowly add sweetened condensed milk and continue beating. Add flour (sifted with baking powder) and mix well. MIx fruits. Add egg whites (beaten, but not stiff), stirring gently.
• Bake at 180 C for about 1 hour. Unmold it still warm.
• GLAZE: mix all ingredients. Pour it over cake. Sprinkle chopped glazed fruits in dish, around the cake.

Steps:

• BASE:.
• Cream shortening and 1/2 cup brown sugar.
• Add salt and 1 cup sifted flour.
• Mix until crumbly.
• Place in a well greased 7 x 11 inch pan.
• Bake in 325 degree Fahrenheit oven for 15 minutes.
• TOPPING:.
• While base if baking, mix 2 Tablespoons flour, baking powder, salt, and eggs.
• Add brown sugar.
• Gradually add vanilla.
• Add nuts and coconut.
• Pour over partially baked base.
• Return to 325 degree Fahrenheit oven for 25 minutes.
• Cut into bars.
• Yield depends on size of cuts.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease and flour a bundt pan, or 4 3x3" loaf pans, ot a 13x9" pan.
• Put all ingredients in large bowl and mix at medium speed until well blended.
• Pour into desired pan.
• Bake at 350 F until toothpick inserted into center comes out dry.
• 55-65 minutes for bundt pan, 20 minutes for small loaf pans, 55-65 minutes for 13x9" pan.
• Remove from oven.
• Remove cake from bundt pan onto cooling rack over a large plate and pour on glaze.
• Can keep cake in loaf pans or 13x9 pan and pour on glaze.
• If you don't want to use the glaze, you can sprinkle on confectioners sugar instead.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9-inch tube pan.
• Separate the eggs. In a small bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form, and set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Beat in the egg yolks and the lemon zest.
• Stir together the flour and baking powder and then blend the flour mixture into the creamed mixture. Gently fold in the egg whites. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan. There will only be a little over an inch of batter. Arrange the plums, skin side down, attractively over the batter.
• Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack and allow to cool before serving.