Vanilla Plum And Buttermilk Smoothie Recipes

VANILLA, PLUM, AND BUTTERMILK SMOOTHIE

Steps:

• Put 4 cups water, sugar, and halved vanilla bean with scraped seeds into a large saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Add plums. Reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until plums are tender, about 15 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer plums to a plate to cool completely; remove bean, and discard poaching liquid.
• Puree cooled plums in a blender. Add buttermilk and small ice cubes; blend until smooth.

VANILLA PLUM CAKE

Steps:

• pre-heat oven to 160 degrees Celcius.
• grease and line an oven roasting dish (or muffin tins).
• cream butter and sugar.
• add eggs one at a time.
• mix in zest and vanilla.
• gently stir in buttermilk/yoghurt and flour.
• DON'T OVER MIX.
• spoon into prepared dish and spread out.
• arrange fruit over the cake batter, cut side up (the fruit will sink a little but this is fine).
• if you are making muffins just put 1 or 2 pieces of fruit on top.
• bake 50 - 60 minutes (or 25 minutes for muffins).

PLUM AND PRUNE SMOOTHIE

Steps:

• Blend the plums, prunes, yogurt, butter milk, soy milk and ice cubes in a blender until smooth.