10 recipes for plum cakes

Best 10 recipes for plum cakes

My Dearest, today I have a very appetizing compilation for you. I invite you to discover 10 recipes for plum cakes. The season for delicious Polish plums is just starting, so it’s the best time to bake cakes with them. You can bake delicious shortcrust pastries or fluffy butter cakes. It can be a yeast cake, a cheesecake, or even a tart. Choose your favorite recipe and be sure to bake a delicious cake!

Shortcrust plum cakes

Plums and shortcrust pastry, or semi-shortcrust pastry, create a delicious combination. Juicy fruits and melt-in-your-mouth pastry taste amazing both warm and after cooling. You can prepare the shortcrust pastry itself in advance (e.g., the day before) and store it in the refrigerator to chill. Then, preparing the cake will take little time, as you just need to take out the dough and line the baking pan with it. If the dough is very cold, instead of rolling it out, I recommend grating it on a large-holed grater, pouring it into the mold, and pressing it firmly with your hands to line the entire bottom. This method is much faster and less problematic than rolling out the dough to the size of the mold. Be sure to try this trick! Additionally, the dough can be pre-baked briefly in an oven heated to 180 degrees Celsius – then it won’t soak up too much plum juice.

See which shortcrust plum cake recipes I have chosen for you.

Quick plum cake

This quick plum cake is a streusel cake. Do you know streusel apple pie? This is a streusel plum cake. Here you don’t need to prepare traditional shortcrust pastry; instead, you mix dry ingredients together (and here you’ll find semolina, among others) and sprinkle them in layers in the mold – alternating with fruit. Such a streusel cake is express, ready in a few minutes, and very tasty. Anyone can handle this cake, even those less advanced in baking. Additionally, a short video of the preparation is included with the recipe, I encourage you to watch it.

Best shortcrust plum cake

This shortcrust plum cake is the best because the dough doesn’t require chilling, and it’s used for both the base and the topping. You can prepare the cake even at the last minute, and it only requires a few basic ingredients. We have a light and melt-in-your-mouth dough, a mass of delicious and juicy plums, and a delicious cake ready! You can also prepare this cake using other fruits – apples or pears will work great – this recipe will be perfect in autumn!

Plum tart with cream

This plum tart is baked with a delicious mascarpone cream, which creates a baked pudding-like consistency. The cake itself is so good that it doesn’t require any additional toppings. Prepare shortcrust pastry for this cake, buy creamy mascarpone cheese, and make a sensational tart. You can also serve the cake with a little whipped cream or a delicious English vanilla cream (you can also find the recipe for it on the blog).

Semi-shortcrust plum tart with advocaat sauce

I made this semi-shortcrust plum tart a long time ago, but I still remember how perfectly it tasted with the incredible advocaat sauce. Here, the dough is thicker and fluffier because baking powder is added to the semi-shortcrust pastry. To give the tart a unique flavor and a slight crunch, sprinkle it with almond flakes before baking. They will perfectly complement the taste of plums and advocaat. You must try it!

Fluffy plum cakes

Fluffy plum cakes are simple butter cakes, or even those mixed with a spoon in a bowl. If the base is a butter cake, it usually involves either soft butter creamed with sugar, or eggs creamed with sugar. The great fluffiness and lightness of the cake depend on the degree of mixing of the initial ingredients. Therefore, it’s worth mixing both butter and eggs for several minutes so that they become nicely fluffy and acquire a very light color. To prevent the butter cake from losing its fluffiness, it’s worth sifting the flour before adding it to the mixture, and additionally, mix all other ingredients briefly and only until combined. Plums are usually baked on top of the cake here – it’s worth arranging the cut fruits skin-side down on the cake so that the juice released during baking does not moisten the cake and soak it too much.

See recipes for delicious plum baked goods.

Italian plum cake

This Italian plum cake is a butter cake, where soft butter is creamed with sugar for a long time. This guarantees its wonderful fluffiness. In addition to flour, ground almonds are added to the cake, which give it a nice flavor and moisture. The whole is, of course, topped with plums and a sweet crumble. This cake is perfect with coffee!

Coconut plum cake

Coconut plum cake is also a butter cake, meaning we cream butter with sugar into a fluffy mass. Here, I added coconut flakes to the cake, which gave it a nice coconut flavor. If you want the flakes to be even more aromatic, you can briefly toast them in a dry pan – this will bring out their coconut flavor. Moreover, this is a plum cake for a large baking sheet, so you can share it with both family and guests.

Plum and cardamom cake

Plum and cardamom cake is the quickest and simplest among these fluffy cakes. Because you can make this plum cake even without a mixer. Just mix the ingredients with a spoon and transfer to a baking pan. Instead of cardamom, you can also use cinnamon, and in winter, gingerbread spice.

Various plum cakes

Here I have recipes for cakes that didn’t quite fit into the previous groups. You’ll find cheesecake, yeast cake, and a cake that was very popular in my youth. Enjoy!

Plum cheesecake

This plum cheesecake is American-style. Baked on a cinnamon crust and with pre-fried plums. The cheesecake mixture is blended briefly without separating the egg whites and yolks. After baking, the cheesecake is nicely velvety and doesn’t sink! This is an ideal cheesecake for autumn – see for yourselves.

Yeast cake with plums and coconut

Here again, we have a combination of plums and coconut. This time it’s a yeast cake with plums and crumble. The base is yeast dough, so keep in mind that its preparation will take more time. Usually, about 3 hours are needed to prepare yeast dough – because rising takes a lot of time. The coconut addition is a delicious coconut cream that perfectly complements the plums. You must try it.

Danube Wave Cake

Danube Wave Cake, alongside ‘Metrowiec’ (Meter Cake), is one of the cakes of my youth. My mother baked it for various occasions, and it always disappeared quickly. Now, my sister Karolina bakes it most often, and I’m providing her recipe, so it’s tried and tested many times.

This cake is a fluffy marble chocolate-vanilla cake baked with plums and pudding. After baking, the cake is additionally covered with chocolate glaze. All of this creates an unforgettable taste experience. If you haven’t tried it, you absolutely must.

These are all my 10 recipes for plum cakes. There are even more on the blog, so you can later see what else you can bake with plums. Maybe cookies, or a no-bake cheesecake?

Finally, as an encouragement, I’ll give you an idea for quick plum muffins. Check out the recipe, and below you can watch a short video where I show how quickly and easily you can make them.

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