Plum Cake Recipe (Austrian German Pflaumenkuchen or Zwetschgenkuchen)
Quick and easy plum cake recipe from the Old World (Austria and Germany, especially Bavaria). Known as Zwetschgenkuchen, Pflaumenkuchen or Zwetschgendatschi this moist cake is loaded with fresh plums.
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Servings: 10
Calories: 371kcal
Ingredients
- 2 lbs ripe plums red, black, yellow or blue
- 10 tablespoon butter melted
- ¾ cup dark brown sugar*
- 1 teaspoon vanilla exrtact
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 5 eggs
- 2 cups flour** sifted
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- powdered sugar as needed, to dust over cake
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a 10 inch springform pan and set aside.
- Wash and halve the plums, remove the pits and cut into wedges.
- Whisk the melted butter, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon until the mixture is creamy.
- Add the eggs one by one while continuing to whisk and whisk until airy.
- Sift the flour, mix with baking soda and salt and gradually fold it into the batter by hand, using a spatula or wooden spoon. Do not over mix.
- Transfer the batter to the springform pan. Smooth it out with the spatula or back of spoon and arrange the plum slices on top in a concentric pattern, beginning at the center and working your way towards the circumference.***
- Bake for 50 minutes. Remove the cake from oven and let cool down a few minutes before taking out of the springform. Dust the plum cake with powdered sugar (optional).
Notes
*It is OK to substitute with vanilla sugar or other sugar of your choice. Note that the flavor will change.
**All-purpose is fine, for a lighter texture and to avoid over mixing the batter consider cake flour which has less gluten.
***The plum wedges will sink to the bottom of the cake batter on their own. If you'd like a more prominent top layer of plums reserve a few wedges and place them on top of where you already put a wedge. Feel free to create your own pattern.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 371kcal | Carbohydrates: 55g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 124mg | Sodium: 499mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 34g
