How to make Plum Cake

Ingredients:
• 1-1/4 Cups plums, pitted and sliced
• 1 Cup all purpose flour
• 3 Eggs
• 1/2 Cup butter, softened
• 1/2 Cup white sugar
• 1 tsp Lemon zest
• 1/2 tsp Baking powder

How to make Plum Cake:
• Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Grease a nine-inch tube pan.
• Beat the egg whites in a bowl and leave aside.
• Cream the butter with sugar in a large bowl.
• Beat egg yolks and the lemon zest. Add it to the butter mixture.
• Stir together 1-cup flour and baking powder.
• Fold in this flour mixture into the creamed mixture.
• Add and stir the egg whites.
• Arrange the batter uniformly into the prepared pan.
• Arrange the sliced plums attractively over the batter with skin-side down.
• Bake it for 40 minutes at 375 degrees F.
• Remove and cool on a rack.
• Plum Cake is ready.