Chocolate cake with plums
Recipe for creamed chocolate cake with plums and chocolate sauce
Bake this delicious and wonderfully fluffy chocolate cake with plums with me today and serve it with an amazing chocolate sauce. This brownie-style cake tastes sensational thanks to the addition of juicy plums, and drizzled with chocolate sauce, it’s even better and more chocolatey. You must try it – also with other fruits.
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Chocolate cake with plums recipe with video
If you like intensely chocolatey cakes with fruit, then you must bake this cake with plums.
Chocolate cake with plums recipe
Wyposażenie
- Baking tin approximately 20/30 cm or 24/24 cm.
Składniki
ingredients for chocolate cake with plums
- 60 ml milk (mine is 1.5%)
- 100 g dark chocolate
- 200 g butter (soft)
- 200 g powdered sugar (- 1 and 1/3 cups – regular sugar 1 cup)
- 5 egg yolks (from size L eggs)
- 5 egg whites
- 300 g wheat flour – all-purpose (- 2 cups)
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 20 g unsweetened cocoa (- 2 tablespoons)
- approx 600 g plums
ingredients for chocolate sauce
- 100 ml heavy cream (mine is 30%)
- 50 g dark chocolate
- powdered sugar (to taste – optional – I didn’t add any)
Instrukcja
How to make chocolate cake with plums
- Break the chocolate into pieces, add milk to it and melt together – I heated it in the microwave, you can also melt it in a water bath – mix thoroughly and let it cool.60 ml milk, 100 g dark chocolate
- Cream the butter with powdered sugar on high speed until fluffy and very light.200 g butter, 200 g powdered sugar
- Meanwhile, sift the flour with baking powder and cocoa through a sieve.300 g wheat flour – all-purpose, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 20 g unsweetened cocoa
- Add the cooled chocolate to the creamed butter and mix briefly.
- Add the egg yolks and mix on low speed until combined.5 egg yolks
- Add the flour in portions and mix briefly on low speed – just until combined.
- Whisk the egg whites with a pinch of salt until a thick and white foam forms.5 egg whites
- Add the egg whites in two portions to the chocolate batter and mix with a spoon.
- Transfer the batter to the prepared tin – I lined it with baking paper.
- Arrange the sliced plums on top, skin side down.approx 600 g plums
- Place the cake in an oven preheated to 170 degrees (fan-assisted) or 180 degrees (top/bottom heat) and bake for about 45 minutes – until a dry skewer comes out clean.
- After baking, cool the cake on a wire rack.
How to make chocolate sauce for cake
- In a saucepan, heat the heavy cream, when hot, add the broken chocolate to it.100 ml heavy cream , 50 g dark chocolate
- Mix the sauce thoroughly until smooth.
- If you prefer sweeter sauces, you can additionally sweeten it with powdered sugar.powdered sugar
- Pour the sauce over the cake.
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Creamed chocolate cake with plums – notes
Recently, taking advantage of the abundance of Polish plums, I baked such a delicious chocolate cake for my family.
This is a creamed cake, so I blended soft butter with sugar into a fluffy and very light mixture, and only then did I start adding other ingredients to it.
What ingredients are needed for chocolate cake?
- butter – we use extra butter here – 82% fat, and the butter must be soft, at room temperature. Therefore, it’s worth taking it out of the fridge beforehand.
- chocolate – for a strong chocolate flavor, I recommend good quality dark chocolate here
- sugar – I like to prepare creamed cakes with powdered sugar; butter whips better with it and has a better texture
- cocoa – in addition to chocolate, I added some bitter cocoa to the cake for an even more intense flavor
- plums – you can use any plums here, cut larger ones into smaller pieces so they are not too heavy
- heavy cream – for the chocolate sauce, you will need heavy cream; I used 30% liquid cream here
How to make creamed chocolate cake fluffy?
For the creamed cake to be fluffy and light after baking, you need to pay attention to a few elements.
Firstly – creaming the butter – cream the butter for a long time – until the sugar dissolves well, and the butter mixture visibly increases in volume and takes on a pale, light color. You can beat the butter for up to 10 minutes. When using powdered sugar, the butter whips faster.
Secondly – it’s good to sift the flour, baking powder, and bitter cocoa through a sieve. This will aerate it and make it lighter when added to the butter.
Thirdly – when adding flour to the creamed butter, mix it on low speed and briefly – just until the ingredients are combined.
Fourthly – egg white foam. In this creamed cake, I whipped the egg whites into a stiff foam and added them to the batter in two portions. Mix the foam into the batter gently with a spoon. Egg white foam adds extra fluffiness and lightness to the creamed cake.
Fifthly – do not open the oven after placing the cake inside until the baking time is complete. Only towards the end of baking can you check with a skewer whether the cake is baked or needs a little more time.
What to substitute plums with in chocolate cake?
If you don’t like plums, or don’t have them, you can use other fruits. Pears – sliced, or raspberries, or blueberries would work great here. You can also use compote fruits or canned fruits.
Regardless of the fruits used, this chocolate cake with chocolate sauce will taste amazing!
And if you like chocolate cakes, be sure to try my other recipes for delicious chocolate cakes.
I also recommend my e-book – “Beata’s Chocolate Bakes” where you’ll find only chocolate sweets. You can view the e-book in my store.
Recommended plum cake recipes
If you love plums and plum cakes, be sure to check out my other recipes for sweet bakes with these delicious fruits. Here I recommend these three recipes:
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