Recipe by Estee Kafra

Plum Season Cake

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24 Servings
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1 Hour, 15 Minutes
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Learn how to prepare a classic cake that puts summertime’s fresh plums to good use.

 

This recipe makes 3 round cakes, and I usually triple the recipe too! The cakes freeze beautifully and I serve them both as a dessert and a side dish.

Ingredients

Main ingredients

  • 2 pounds Italian prune plums, halved and pitted

  • juice of 1 lemon

  • 1/2 cup sugar

  • 1 teaspoon ground coriander seeds

  • 1 stick (4 ounces) margarine (trans-fat free, and soy-free if needed) or butter

  • 2 cups sugar

  • 1 cup oil

Directions

Prepare the Cake

1.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

2.

Combine the pitted plums, lemon juice and sugar in a bowl and let sit for half an hour.

3.

Meanwhile, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with beaters, beat margarine (or butter) with the sugar until it is the texture of grainy sand.  Add the oil and beat on high for three minutes, until pale and smooth.  Lower speed and add the flour, baking powder, eggs, orange juice and lemon extract.  Beat until pale and smooth, about four minutes.

4.

Grease three nine-inch round pans.  Add the coriander into the plum mixture and mix again to coat all the plums.  Divide the batter amongst the three pans, press in plums cut side down, around the perimeter of the cake, then one row in and place one in the centre. The plums  should be close together, but not touching each other.  Bake for 55 minutes.

Plum Season Cake

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Nomi
Nomi
3 years ago

Delicious. We have a Victorian plum tree in the garden and this is always the first recipe I make with the plums.