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Plum Cake Recipe
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Here I show you my Plum Cake Recipe. What do we remember from childhood?
The most loving woman of whom I could say at home back with my parents:
“With grandma I can!” And she always baked so beautifully too, namely the most amazing plum cake in the world!
I learned a few things from Grandma’s cake recipe. I would like to pass this wonderful heritage on to you today.
One thing first: the cake recipe is with the so-called plums, which are also plums.
Have fun in your bakery, maybe grandma will come over to eat the cake!
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1. Recipe Plum Cake
How Grandma did it step by step, I explain to you in detail and many photos now in the recipe section.
In good memory of grandma! Have fun baking!
Plum Cake
Baked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Servings 8
Calories 282
Total Time 50 Min.
Preparation Time 20 Min.
Cook Time 30 Min.
Simple tutorial for baking plum cake.
Ingredients
| 3 | pc | eggs |
| 130 | g | brown sugar |
| 1 | tsp | lemon abrasion (I’ll have an organic lemon.) |
| 1 | packet | vanilla sugar |
| 1 | tsp | Baking Powder |
| 140 | g | flour |
| 2 | cl | brown rum |
| 100 | g | butter (soft) |
| 18-36 | pc | plums or damsons (washed and without stones) |
| 1 | tsp | cinnamon (grounded) |
| 1 | tbs | brown sugar |
| 1 | tbs | powdered sugar |
Instruction
Prepare damsons
Wash, halve and stone the damsons.
Marinate
Marinate the plums in sugar and cinnamon.
Preparations
Preheat oven at 190°C hot air.
Grease the cake tin, 24 cm diameter, with enough butter.
I always like to use a kitchen paper instead of a kitchen brush.
Prepare dough
Beat the whipped eggs, sugar, lemon grater and vanilla sugar until foamy for 4 minutes.
Add flour
Add baking powder, flour and butter to the mixture and mix for another 3 minutes.
Add rum
Add some brown rum to the dough.
Check dough
The dough must fall from the spoon tear-resistant.
If the rum makes the dough too soft, add some flour.
Pour in dough
Pour the cake mixture into the baking tin and spread evenly with the cake spatula.
Put on fruit
Place the plum halves marinated with sugar and cinnamon, inside down, in the dough.
Baking
Bake the plum cake for 30-35 minutes at 180°C, remove the ring from the baking tin while still hot and allow the fruit cake to cool.
Add powdered sugar
Sprinkle the cake with icing sugar for decoration.
Use a fine sieve.
Serve
Bon appetit!
Courses
Cousine
2. Nutritional Information
3. Plum or Damson for the Cake
- The damson is a subspecies of the plum.
- The fruits of the damson are blue. The plum fruits can be blue, red or yellow.
- Plums are roundish, damsons rather elongated-oval.
- Plums are often larger than damsons.
- Damsons have a distinct seam, plums have a weaker seam.
- The core of the ripe damson can easily be separated from the flesh, the core of the ripe plum cannot.
- Plums disintegrate during cooking, while damsons retain their shape.
Damson plums are dimensionally stable and easy to process.
Tip from Chef Thomas Sixt
This is an important reason why plum cakes are usually topped with damsons.
4. Sponge Dough Tips for Plum Cake
The nostalgic plum cake with sponge mixture not only succeeds grandma but also us. It is easy and quick to make. First I start with the fruit topping:
- Wash the plums, pat dry, halve and pit them.
- Marinate the plum halves with cinnamon and sugar in a bowl.
- I spread the cake tin with plenty of soft butter.
Preheat oven at 190 °C hot air. You can bake the cake on top or bottom heat. There you should preheat at about 200 °C and bake. Then it’s time for the dough preparation:
- Mix the ingredients as shown in the order shown below in the recipe section.
- The dough should have a nice volume, which means we stir the dough for a very long time.
- The plum goes well with rum. Some rum therefore, do not drink but stir into the dough 😉
5. Other Cake Recipes
Lemon Cake
Easy Apple Pie Recipe
Fruit Cake Base Recipe for Your Easy German Sunday Cake
Chocolate Tart Recipe with Buckwheat
Plum Tarte Recipe for 3 Variations
Plum Crumble Recipe
Zwetschgendatschi Recipe for German Plum Cake
Plum Cake Recipe with Yeast Dough
Cake Pops Recipe
Preparing Cake Pops with Cake Leftovers
Marble Cake Muffins, on Request with Topping
Marble Cake with Glaze Recipe
Comments, Cooking Questions and Answers
Below you can write to me directly.
Please don’t forget the star rating on the recipe, 5 stars means you liked it!
Hi Chel!
Thank you for your question, a packet of vanilla sugar has 24 g in Germany.
Wish you continue to have fun baking and good luck!
Greetings Thomas
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Great recipe, thank you! I enjoyed the cake and will definitely make it again.
ReplyI hope so 🙂 Greetings Thomas
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Hi Thomas!
What is the weight of a packet of vanilla sugar in this recipe please?
Thanks and greetings
Chel