Plum Nutty Cake Recipes

FRESH PLUM KUCHEN

Steps:

• In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Combine flour and baking powder; add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Add lemon zest. Pour into a greased 10-in. springform pan. Arrange plums on top; gently press into batter. Sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon. , Place pan on a baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 40-50 minutes or until top is golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes. Run a knife around edge of pan; remove sides. Cool on a wire rack.

PLUM NUTTY CAKE

Steps:

• Sift flour and spices together and set aside. Combine sugar, oil, & eggs together in large bowl. DO NOT USE MIXER! Stir in flour mixture. Add plums & nuts. Mix well by hand.
• Pour into well greased & floured bundt pan or tube pan.
• Bake on 350 for 45-55 minutes. Cool before removing from pan.

HAZELNUT PLUM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F. and butter and flour an 8-inch round cake pan, knocking out excess flour.
• In a small saucepan melt butter over moderate heat and cool. Stir in vanilla. In a food processor blend together nuts, brown sugar, and flour until nuts are ground fine.
• In a bowl with an electric mixer beat whites with salt until they hold stiff peaks and fold in nut mixture gently but thoroughly. Fold in butter mixture (batter will deflate) and spread batter in prepared pan.
• Arrange plum slices evenly over batter and sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake cake in middle of oven 20 to 25 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Turn cake out onto rack and cool, plum side up, 5 minutes.
• Sift confectioner's sugar onto cake and serve cake warm with ice cream.

PLUM NUTTY CAKE

Steps:

• Combine Wesson oil and sugar. Then mix in flour, eggs, ground cloves, ground cinnamon, lemon extract and plum or prune baby food. After this is mixed well, add nuts. Grease Bundt pan. Pour in mixture. Bake at 325° for 55 minutes. (Start in cold oven.)

PLUM CRUNCH CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 160°C.
• Butter and line the base of a 2 lb loaf tin.
• Lightly beat the eggs and yolk with a pinch of salt.
• Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy.
• Pour in the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Fold in the flour with the orange zest and two tablespoons of the juice.
• Fold in the chopped plums (or other fruit you are using).
• Spoon into the prepared pan.
• Scatter the plum wedges over the top.
• Bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
• Cool for 10 minutes, then turn out on a wire rack.
• Mix the remaining orange juice with the lemon juice and caster sugar.
• Spoon over the cooling cake and sprinkle with the crushed sugar pieces.

OLD FASHIONED PLUM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*. Thoroughly grease and flour a 9" springform pan. Sift flour with baking powder, baking soda and salt; set aside. Beat butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla with electric mixer on high until light and fluffy (about 5 minutes).
• Reduce mixer speed to low. Alternately add about one-fourth of the flour mixture and one-third of the sour cream, beginning and ending with flour and beating thoroughly after each addition. After all has been added, scrape down sides of bowl and beat 1 minute longer.
• Pour batter into prepared springform pan; spread evenly with rubber spatula. Put pan on center rack in oven and bake for about 50 minutes until cake is golden brown and a cake tester inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
• Meanwhile, make Crumb Topping: Put sugar, flour, butter and cinnamon ina small bowl. Toss lightly with a pastry blender or two forks until mixture is crumbly and the butter is in fine pieces. Set aside.
• Wash plums; dry well. Cut fresh plums in half, remove pits and discard. If using canned plums, drain thoroughly, cut in half and remove pits. Remove cake from oven and sprinkle with crumb topping. Arrange plums on top and bake 10 minutes longer.
• Remove cake from oven and place on wire cake rack to cool for 10 minutes. Loosen cake from sides of pan, using a small knife or long metal spatula. Remove pan sides and brush plums with melted jam. Serve warm.

PLUM CAKEY TART

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray an 7x11-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• Whisk together the whole wheat flour, white flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Cream together the butter and 3/4 cup of sugar in a large bowl; mix in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir the flour mixture into the wet ingredients in two additions, mixing gently between each addition until the batter is just combined. Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish, and arrange the sliced plums over the batter. Sprinkle the fruit with 1 tablespoon sugar, and dust with cinnamon.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 50 to 55 minutes.

PLUM NUTTY CAKE

Steps:

• Combine Wesson oil and sugar. Then mix in flour, eggs, ground cloves, ground cinnamon, lemon extract and plum or prune baby food. After this is mixed well, add nuts. Grease Bundt pan. Pour in mixture. Bake at 325° for 55 minutes. (Start in cold oven.)