Eating Well Plum Torte Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cream the sugar and butter in a bowl. Add the flour, baking powder, salt and eggs and beat well.
• Spoon the batter into a springform pan of 8, 9 or 10 inches. Place the plum halves skin side up on top of the batter. Sprinkle lightly with sugar and lemon juice, depending on the sweetness of the fruit. Sprinkle with about 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, depending on how much you like cinnamon.
• Bake 1 hour, approximately. Remove and cool; refrigerate or freeze if desired. Or cool to lukewarm and serve plain or with whipped cream. (To serve a torte that was frozen, defrost and reheat it briefly at 300 degrees.)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Beat eggs, prunes and 1 cup of the sugar until blended.
• Beat in flour, baking powder and pinch of salt. Spoon into ungreased 8-, 9- or 10-inch spring form.
• Split and pit the plums, and place them on batter, skin side down, in concentric circles.
• Sprinkle generously with the cinnamon, 2 teaspoons of sugar and a few squeezes of lemon juice.
• Bake for about 40 minutes, until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool to lukewarm before serving. Can be reheated.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Beat the butter, 3/4 cup of the sugar and bananas with electric mixer until well blended. Beat in flour, baking powder and egg substitute until well blended.
• Spoon batter in 8- , 9- or 10-inch ungreased spring form. Arrange plum halves skin side down; sprinkle with 2 teaspoons of sugar -- more if plums are very tart -- a few squeezes of lemon juice and about 1 teaspoon cinnamon -- more if you like cinnamon.
• Bake one hour, approximately. Remove and cool; refrigerate or freeze, if desired. Or cool to lukewarm and serve.
• To serve torte that was frozen, defrost and reheat briefly at 300 degrees.