Name: Joanne's French Plum Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 10 dark red plums; 3 Tbsp Chelsea White Sugar; 300g butter; 1½ cups Chelsea White Sugar; 3 eggs; Zest of 1 orange; 1 tsp vanilla essence; ½ cup milk; 1½ cups flour; 1 cup ground almonds; 1 tsp baking powder; Chelsea Icing Sugar for sprinkling

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Joanne's French Plum Cake

4.6

Preparation

15 mins

Bake

1 hours

Difficulty

Easy

Servings

Joanne, our Recipe Club Bake-Off winner used this recipe in the challenge, it is a cake that she tweaked and adapted over the years to create this delicious end result!

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Ingredients

10 dark red plums
3 Tbsp Chelsea White Sugar
300g butter
1½ cups Chelsea White Sugar
3 eggs
Zest of 1 orange
1 tsp vanilla essence
½ cup milk
1½ cups flour
1 cup ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder
Chelsea Icing Sugar for sprinkling

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Reviews

12

What did you think of this recipe?

Leisa

This recipe is easy to prepare and looks really fancy once it is baked. If you don't like plums you could add apricots or peaches.Very tasty for afternoon tea or a desert.

Cheryl

I searched and searched for a frangipane plum cake and finally found the answer here. What a wonderful cake. I too had to cook it longer and cover with foil at the end: about an hour and 20 minutes. I waited until the centre barely jigggled when agitated. I put the plums cut side up and didn't know if this was correct, but it seems to be OK. I had some cherries to use up too, so I filled in the gaps with stoned cherries. I can see that this would be superb with apricots so that will be the next iteration.

Marion

Seems like a lot of butter in this cake, the mixture needed 30 minutes extra cooking time. Delicious though.

Susan Lean

Lots of butter... but makes a great dessert cake and easy to make

Kate

Absolutely brilliant. Exactly what I was searching for. I used rhubarb, because I had a lot, instead of plums and the texture is fantastic. What a treat. Now on top 5 best ever recipes list. Thank you.

Katherine

I loved this recipe; a great way to use frozen plums. It works well as a GF cake too- just exchange the flour and baking powder for Bakels gluten-free baking mix.

Catherine

I had to bake this cake for 20 minutes more than was suggested. However, it was absolutely delicious and my guests raved about it. I omitted the sugar to sweeten the plums and prefer the slightly tart flavor with the sweet cake. I also served it with unsweetened greek yogurt and this catered for everyone's tastes. Will definitely make again. Thank you.

Deirdre

Agree, really good. Needs 80-90mins cooking time. Will try less butter next time. I forget it leaks through springform tin.

Marion

Seems like a lot of butter in this cake, the mixture needed 30 minutes extra cooking time. Delicious though.

Curtis

Fantastic cake, only used 200g of marg and 1cup of sugar and still worked out well.

Method

Preheat oven 180°C and grease a 26cm tin. Cut plums, discard stones and put into a bowl with 3 Tbsp sugar. Set aside.

Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add eggs one at a time and then mix in zest and vanilla. Stir in milk, flour, almonds and baking powder.

Spread into prepared tin and then place plums over the top. Bake for 1 hour.

Sprinkle icing sugar on top when cool.

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Icing Sugar

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White Sugar

The uniform size of the...

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Reviews

12

What did you think of this recipe?

Leisa

This recipe is easy to prepare and looks really fancy once it is baked. If you don't like plums you could add apricots or peaches.Very tasty for afternoon tea or a desert.

Cheryl

Marion

Seems like a lot of butter in this cake, the mixture needed 30 minutes extra cooking time. Delicious though.

Susan Lean

Lots of butter... but makes a great dessert cake and easy to make

Kate

Katherine

I loved this recipe; a great way to use frozen plums. It works well as a GF cake too- just exchange the flour and baking powder for Bakels gluten-free baking mix.

Catherine

Deirdre

Agree, really good. Needs 80-90mins cooking time. Will try less butter next time. I forget it leaks through springform tin.

Marion

Seems like a lot of butter in this cake, the mixture needed 30 minutes extra cooking time. Delicious though.

Curtis

Fantastic cake, only used 200g of marg and 1cup of sugar and still worked out well.

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