Plum Streusel Poppy Seed Cake

We made this cake a while ago and liked it very much. The poppyseed cake together with the juicy plums and the crispy streusel was a wonderful combination!

For the steusel:

85g Flour
50g Butter
50g Sugar
a pinch of cinnamon

Mix the flour, sugar and cinnamon together. Cut the butter into small squares and mix (with your hands) with the flour and sugar/cinnamon until very crumbly. Set aside.

For the cake:

180g softened Butter
90g Sugar (1)
90g Sugar (2)
3 egg yolks
3 egg whites
90g Sugar
180g Flour
60 Ground Poppyseeds

600g plums cut in halves

To make the cake, beat the butter until foamy. Mix in the sugar (1) and keep beating the mixture until the sugar has dissolved almost completely. Add one egg yolk after the other and beat until light yellow.

Beat the egg whites and gradually add the sugar (2) until the mixture is stiff and bright white.

Sieve the flour and mix with the ground poppy seeds.

Start adding the flour/poppy seed and the egg white/sugar mixture to the egg yolk/sugar mixture, alternating between the two of them.

Pour the batter into a buttered and floured cake pan and put the plum halves on top. Crumble the Streusel on top of the plum halves and bake on 180° for about 40 minutes. Increase the temperature to 200° and bake for another 15 to 20 minutes.

Enjoy!!!

P.S. I personally would put a little less sugar...but thats only me :-)