Categories: Cakes, Davidson 
      Yield: 16 servings 
  
      1 c  Butter, sweet 
    1/4 c  Sugar 
    3/4 c  Sugar, brown, dark 
      2 lg Egg 
      1 ts Vanilla extract 
  2 1/2 c  Flour 
      2 ts Baking powder 
      1 ts Baking soda 
    1/2 ts Salt 
      2 ts Cinnamon, ground 
     16 oz Purple plums, canned 
           Sugar, confectioners 
  
  Drain plums well, reserve syrup and chop plums. 
   
  Preheat the oven to 400 F.  In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter 
  until creamy and light, then gradually add the sugars, beating until 
  creamy and smooth.  Beat in the eggs, then the vanilla.  Sift all dry 
  ingredients together; stir into the butter mixture, alternating with 
  1/2 cup of the reserved syrup, beginning and ending with dry 
  ingredients.  Stir in the plums.  Pour the batter into a greased 9" x 
  13" baking pan.  Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick 
  tests clean.  Turn the cake out of the pan and cool on a wire rack. 
  Dust with confectioners' sugar. 
   
                                      ---*The Cereal Murders* 
                                          Diane Mott Davidson