Sugar Plum Coffee Cake Recipes

SUGAR PLUM COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Melt butter. Pour into a 9 inch square baking pan; tilt pan to evenly coat bottom of pan. Sprinkle evenly with brown sugar. Arrange apple rings in single layer over brown sugar. Place plum half, rounded side down, in center of each apple ring. Place remaining plum halves around apple rings; sprinkle with walnuts.
• In medium bowl, whisk egg and milk. Add baking mix and granulated sugar; stir, until smooth. Spread batter evenly over nuts. Bake 25-30 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool 5 minutes; invert onto serving plate. Serve warm. Makes 8 servings.

PLUM STREUSEL COFFEECAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. and butter and flour a 9-inch round or square baking pan at least 2 inches deep.
• Make streusel:
• In a food processor pulse together streusel ingredients until combined well and crumbly.
• Make cake batter:
• In a bowl with an electric mixer beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy and add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, and vanilla. Sift in flour with baking powder and salt and beat until just combined.
• Spread cake batter in pan, smoothing top, and arrange plum slices over it in slightly overlapping concentric circles. Sprinkle streusel over plum slices and bake cake in middle of oven 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean. Coffeecake may be made 1 week ahead: Cool cake completely in pan on a rack and freeze, wrapped well in plastic wrap and foil. Reheat cake, unwrapped but not thawed, in a preheated 350°F. oven until heated through, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool cake slightly on a rack and sift confectioners' sugar over it. Serve coffeecake warm or at room temperature.