Plum cake with plum jam. FOR CAKE: beat sugar and butter until light. This version has the cake topped with a homemade plum jam. Sprinkle evenly with topping, squeezing to create large clumps. Plum cake with plum jam

You can have Plum cake with plum jam using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Plum cake with plum jam
  1. Prepare of For cake.
  2. Prepare 1 cup of All purpose flour.
  3. It’s 3/4 cup of sugar.
  4. You need 4 tbsp of butter.
  5. Prepare 4-5 of plums (peeled and de-seeded).
  6. It’s of vanilla extract.
  7. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
  8. It’s pinch of salt.
  9. You need 2 of eggs.
  10. You need of For Jam.
  11. It’s 10-12 of plums.
  12. You need 1.5 cups of sugar.
  13. Prepare 0.5 tsp of cinnamon powder (optional).

The addition of warm spices — like cinnamon. Plum cakes have a light, fluffy texture and an irresistibly buttery flavor. To make your own cake, pit and slice a few ripe plums. Remove the pan from the heat and add plums, cut side down, into the syrup.

Plum cake with plum jam instructions

  1. FOR CAKE: beat sugar and butter until light. Add eggs one by one and beat..

  2. In another bowl, sift baking powder and all purpose flour together. Add it to the butter, sugar and eggs mixture gradually whisking and combining it. Beat until a fine batter is formed. If it is too thick, milk can be added for desired consistency..

  3. Grease baking dish. Pour the batter and line plums cut in wedges on the top. Bake in a preheated oven at 180° for 35 minutes (or according to your settings of oven, mine took around 36 mins.).

  4. While the cake bakes. Prepare the jam and cool it down. FOR JAM. Actually i didn't used any ingredient for setting the jam, but it worked well if you use seeds while cooking (i read it in a cook book), so cooking your plums with seeds in it actually helps..

  5. Heat a pan or wok add half cut plums to it, add half a cup of water and give it a boil. Add sugar and stir continuously. Add half a cup of water again and stir. Cook over medium heat until it thickens (and its skin is almost dissolved) Switch off the heat and remove the seeds and let it cool down. Store it in a jar..

  6. Cake out from the oven. Pour the jam. Serve.

Plums, chocolate and hazelnut - this is a cake that really celebrates the season. Enjoy a slice with your mid-morning coffee or serve it warm for dessert. This sumptuous seasonal bake is topped with halved plums or apricots and a buttery crumble topping - serve as a pudding or cake. Plum Coffee Cake Recipe & Video. Fresh Plums look so pretty sitting on top of a cake.