Super Easy Plum Cake

Hello and Welcome! I have a sweet treat today – Super Easy Plum Cake. I love fruit in cakes, especially summertime stone fruits like plum and peach and cherries. Today’s cake is mounded with slices of plum sprinkled with a cinnamon sugar mix; it’s a great dessert, or maybe even better as breakfast with a coffee, which is how I found myself enjoying it. No matter when you have it, it’s a great summertime cake, loaded with fresh fruit. Let’s get right to it.

Let’s start by measuring out all the ingredients. First, take a stick of unsalted butter out of the fridge and let it come up to room temperature. (We are having a heatwave, so I set my wrapped stick of butter out on the screen porch while I gathered the rest of the ingredients – it softened in about 20 minutes.)

Then we have 1.5 cups of sugar (divided), two large eggs, plain full fat yogurt, vanilla paste, baking powder, baking soda, fine sea salt, flour, and of course plums. I have 8 ripe plums. The reserved 1/2 cup sugar and the cinnamon will be a topping we will add after the batter is made. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Generously butter an 8×8 or 9×9-inch baking pan.

Super Easy Plum Cake Batter

Cream the room temperature butter with 1 cup of sugar until it’s light and fluffy.

Now add 1 egg at a time, beating in the egg between each addition. Then add the yogurt and the vanilla, beat the mixture until smooth. Then add the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Scrape down the sides as needed and mix until a smooth, thick batter forms.

Set the batter aside and mix together the 1/2 cup reserved sugar and the cinnamon. Slice the plums in half, remove the pit. And slice each plum into thin wedges.

Plum Time!

Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan and smooth out the top so the batter is even. Sprinkle on half of the cinnamon sugar mixture. Then pile the plum slices evenly over the top.

Sprinkle the remaining cinnamon sugar mixture over the plums.

I am using an 8×8-inch pan which took 1 hour and 20 minutes to bake. At the 1 hour mark, I covered the pan the with foil to keep the top from getting too dark. If you are using a 9×9-inch pan, bake the cake for 45 minutes to 1 hour.

When a cake tester comes out clean, it’s ready. Set the whole pan on a wire rack to cool for about 30 minutes. Then, use a knife or spatula to run around the edges to loosen the cake from the sides of the pan. Now, invert the cake onto the wire rack, and invert again onto a serving plate.

Optionally, you can give the cake a dusting of powdered sugar.

Super Easy Plum Cake

I love the crispy exterior on this cake. The cinnamon sugar combination did a great job at caramelizing and creating a lovely, light crispy crust on all the edges of the cake. The interior is super moist, lightly sweet and of course the plums are delicious bursts of juicy plum flavor.

I do hope you consider this cake for your next sweet tooth craving, or summer get together. If you want to go a different summer fruit dessert route, try Skillet Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp. Take care and be well, xo Kelly

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Super Easy Plum Cake

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Dessert – American

By Kelly Djalali – Serves: ~12

Prep Time: 15 Minutes – Cooking Time: 1 Hour, 20 Minutes – Total Time: 1 Hour 35 Minutes, Plus 30 Minutes Cooling Time

A light and crispy, sweet exterior gives way to a moist, lightly sweet, fresh plum filled cake. Perfect for dessert or breakfast.

Ingredients

• 1.5 cups White Sugar, divided
• 1 Stick Unsalted Butter, room temperature (plus more for greasing the baking pan)
• 2 Large Eggs
• 1 cup Plain, Full Fat Yogurt
• 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract, or Vanilla Bean Paste
• 2 cups All-Purpose Flour
• 1 tsp. Baking Soda
• 1 tsp.Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp. Fine Sea Salt, or 1 tsp. Kosher Salt
• 1 tsp. Ground Cinnamon
• 8 Medium Ripe Plums, pitted and sliced
• Optional, Powdered Sugar to dust plated cake

Instructions

1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Generously butter an 8x8 or 9x9-inch baking pan.

2

In a stand mixer, cream the room temperature butter with 1 cup of sugar on medium/high speed until it's light and fluffy.

3

Add 1 egg at a time, beating in the egg between each addition.

4

Then add the yogurt and the vanilla, beat the mixture until smooth.

5

Next add the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Scrape down the sides as needed and mix until a smooth, thick batter forms.

6

Set the batter aside and mix together the 1/2 cup reserved sugar and the cinnamon in a small bowl.

7

Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan and smooth out the top so the batter is even. Sprinkle on half of the cinnamon sugar mixture. Then pile the plum slices evenly over the top.

8

Sprinkle the remaining cinnamon sugar mixture over the plums.

9

If using an 8x8-inch pan, bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Begin checking the cake at the 1 hour mark. At the 1 hour mark, cover the pan the with foil to keep the top from getting too dark.

10

If you are using a 9x9-inch pan, bake the cake for 45 minutes to 1 hour.

11

When a cake tester comes out clean, it's ready.

12

Set the cake in the pan on a wire rack to cool for about 30 minutes.

13

Then, use a knife or spatula to run around the edges to loosen the cake from the sides of the pan.

14

Now, invert the cake onto the wire rack, and invert again onto a serving plate.

15

Optionally, you can give the cake a dusting of powdered sugar.

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