As soon as a happened upon this cake, (thank you Bloglines for delivering the blogs I like to read in such an easy way), I knew that I wanted to make it. I actually thought of the cake every day until this morning when I finally made it. Wait, let me correct that. Until this morning when Alex (mostly made the cake).

When I re-read the instructions for the cake, I knew that I would have to make a couple of changes. I didn’t have dark brown sugar, just light. Also, whole milk is just not something that we have kicking around in the fridge under normal circumstances, so I used 2 percent. Since Alex has shown a particular liking for the green, “golden glow” plums, that is what I bought for this cake. Oh, one more thing, since I *gasp* didn’t have any vanilla. (Yeah, I know even people who don’t cook or bake have vanilla). I had to choose between lemon extract and almond extract. I went with the almond.

Success!