Traditional and delicious plum cake recipe as basic shortcake recipe for various fruit cakes and fruit. Simple, easy, delicious and quick plum cake as classy recipe for German plum cake.
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Plum cake recipe for a simple and delicious plum cake, which is made quickly and succeeds even beginners. A shortcrust pastry as a base for various fruit cakes and for us the perfect base for our delicious plum cake or plum cake.
Traditional German plum cake is made with Zwetschgen, which US markets sell as Italian prune plums. They are the small oval purple ones, and they are not interchangeable with the round red plums that dominate American produce shelves — those are far wetter and turn the base to mush.
Italian prune plums are freestone, dense and low in water, which is exactly why this cake works. They appear in US farmers markets from mid-August into September, and that short window is the season for this cake. Lay the halves standing upright and packed tightly; they shrink considerably as they bake. See the rest of our German recipes.
Zuerst Zucker, Salz und Butter schaumig rühren in der Küchenmaschine.
Add egg and add flour by the spoonful and let it mix. Then chill the dough for about an hour. Start 60 minutes timer here
In the meantime, wash the plums, cut them in half and remove the pit. If desired, you can also quarter the plums.
After the hour, roll out dough with flour and line a fruit tart pan with it.
Now place the half plums in a circle from the outside to the inside on the dough and press them in lightly.
Bake the cake for about 45 minutes at 180 °C. Then allow to cool before removing the baking pan and serving the cake. Start 45 minutes timer here
Nutrition per serving
250kcal
13 gFat
32 gCarbs
3 gProtein
15 gSugar
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Step-by-step instructions to make the perfect plum cake
Cream sugar, salt and butter in a cake mixer until fluffy. Add egg and flour by tablespoonfuls while mixer continues to run. Place dough in the refrigerator for an hour.
Now wash, halve and pit the plums. If desired, you can also quarter the plums, which will make it easier to eat with a fork later.
After an hour, roll out the dough with flour and cover a fruit-base mold with it, creating a rim. This edge is important, because especially with plums a lot of juice is produced during baking and we do not want to have this juice permanently burned in the oven.
Now place the plums in a circle, standing slightly upright from the outside to the inside, and press them very lightly into the bottom.
Bake the cake for about 45 minutes at 180 degrees (top/bottom heat) and let it cool before removing the pan.
To serve, you can sprinkle the cake with a little vanilla sugar or cinnamon sugar or serve with whipped cream or, of course, just enjoy it plain.
Especially in summer, a delicious plum cake recipe belongs for us to the afternoon coffee. Due to the delicious baked plums and the resulting slightly melted plum juice, the shortbread cake goes so really well with whipped cream, which rounds off this cake just perfectly for us.
Even though we sometimes prefer fruit cakes with yeast dough and crumbles, this cake recipe without crumbles is not only lower in calories, but also really light and refreshing. A classic cake with seasonal fruits, like the popular plums, or damsons for our plum cake recipe.
As soon as we see a large package of plums while shopping, it is clear to us that we want to bake a plum cake again very quickly. Today I’m sharing with you the easiest and fastest plum cake recipe we know.
Plum cake and plum cake recipe
However, strictly speaking, our plum cake is more of a plum cake. Plums are the perfect subspecies of plums that are best for baking. While round plums tend to be chewy and perfect for jams, damsons have the perfect consistency as a cake fruit. Plums are easily recognized by their more elongated shape and slightly dull-looking skin.
The flesh of plums does not melt during baking, as it does with a round plum; it holds its shape even when hot in the oven and still releases enough juice to make a juicy fruitcake. Likewise, the seeds of the plums are very easy to separate from the flesh, which is often rather not the case with plums. Therefore, always take plums, even if it is called plum cake recipe.
You are also welcome to still spread the butter crumble from our crumble cake on the plums before baking. However, half of the amount of ingredients given for the apple crumble cake is sufficient.
For those who like to eat their fruit cake with a lot of cream, we have our delicious chewy sponge cream cake with fruit as a recipe suggestion. Very popular in the combination on the coffee table is also our lemon cake and our cheese cream cake.
Our recipe for a plum cake or plum cake recipe on a shortcrust base is quite easy to bake and is always fun for us – both when baking itself and when eating it.
A little tip: we always use gloves to chop and pit the plums, because plums like to stain and otherwise you can have blue-purple hands and fingernails for a few days.
I have been baking and cooking for my family and community for years — honest recipes, all tested in my own kitchen and explained step by step so they turn out reliably for you too.
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