A while ago I bought plums and wanted to turn them into a delicious dessert. But I wasn’t sure what to do to be honest. To change some pies, I started making a soft cake.
I went through it 3 times until I got the perfect cake, at least perfect for me, for my tastes. Not too sweet, mellow, with a marked almond taste and above all full of fruit!
I made it with plums, with a mixture of peaches and plums (but it was worse), with almond powder and without (clearly I prefer with), with 1 sachet and ½ sachet of yeast chemical… In short, with this cake recipe, I would have had a great time.
My daughter and my friends loved it, but I admit that even though I never tire of watching it, I will put on kilos if I continue in this direction so I believe the next plum cake will be for the ‘next year.
I wanted to share this recipe with you before the plums left the market stalls. Because I don’t know about you, but here, summer gives way to autumn. It is the rain and the grayness which unfortunately replace the sun.
With this cake, I wanted to enjoy the summer a little more. Just a little bit more.
And today I had the chance to freshly pick apples and pears straight from their trees and guess what I’m going to do with them? I will surely turn them into pies or cakes and gain even more kilos!
Plum cake recipe
Ingredients
- 90 gr butter + a little to butter the dish
- 90 gr sugar
- 3 eggs
- 50 gr almond powder
- 150 gr flour
- 1/2 sachet baking powder
- 60 ml milk
- 500 gr fresh plums
- 2 tbsp powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
- To melt the butter.
- Mix with the sugar.
- Add the 3 eggs and mix.
- Pour in the almond powder and baking powder. Mix.
- Gradually add the flour, stirring regularly.
- Pour in the milk and mix.
- Butter a baking dish and pour the mixture into it.
- Slice the plum. Remove seed.
- Add the plums or italian prunes.
- Bake for 50 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and sprinkle icing sugar on top of the cake.
- Leave the cake cool at room temperature
- Slice and serve !
Little tips
- Sift the almond powder to remove the crunchy bits.
- Butter the mold before pouring the cake batter, it will come off the edges more easily.
- Sprinkle it with icing sugar just after removing from the oven to prevent the top from drying out.
- To make even more tasty you can serve it with a whipped cream
Besides, I wonder if next time, I wouldn’t make a little syrup to pour over it just to make it even more delicious.
Hello Natacha,
Thank you for offering this lovely Plum Cake recipe. I look forward to trying it but need to ask you, what size baking pan or dish I need to bake it in. Would you please be so kind as to offer that information. Many thanks.
Respectfully yours,
Constanze
It sounds delicious but please would you tell me how much 1/2 sachet of baking powder is in teaspoons. Thanks
Good to receive your latest recipe. I missed a couple I think but it’s great to get this one again now as I love plums and don’t always want to make a pie, or jam. Thank you.
Thank you very much Jan.