From breakfast to snack, the plum cake conquers adults and children alike. Its name means “plum cake”: in England it is prepared, in fact, with these fruits, but the classic plum cake recipe it also involves the use of candied fruit and raisins instead of plums.
The dough is soft: at the base of flour, eggs, sugar, butter you can add other flavors and ingredients to taste, such as lemon for example, to make the plum cake different every time. The characteristic shape of this dessert is that of a parallelepiped, to be obtained with a box mould. The plum cake is easy to prepare: just mix the ingredients, pour the mixture into the mold and bake.
Plum cake, recipes for the cold season
In autumn and winter the plum cake can be enriched with seasonal fruit like apples and pears, with dried fruit like walnuts and hazelnuts or, again, with carrots, pumpkin and chocolate. By dividing the dough in two and coloring one of the parts with cocoa, plum cakes can be obtained two-tone or marbled. Here are some ideas: Plum cake with pears, Plum cake with carrots, apples and coconut, Plum cake with pears and amaretti biscuits with crumble, Plum cake with carrots, Plum cake with walnuts, Hazelnut and carrot plum cake with lemon cream, marbled plum cake with pumpkin and chocolate, Oil and cocoa plum cake, two-tone plum cake, Marbré plum cake with Matcha tea.
Plum cake, recipes for the summer
When it’s hot we can play with all the colorful fruit of the summer, as well as herbs. Among the ideas that you can draw inspiration from are these: Plum cake with figs, Strawberry grape plum cake, Plum cake with lemon and berries, Plum cake with rosemary and blueberries.
