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Joanne's French Plum Cake

Name: Joanne's French Plum Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 10 dark red plums3 Tbsp Chelsea White Sugar300g butter1½ cups Chelsea White Sugar3 eggsZest of 1 orange1 tsp vanilla essence½ cup milk1½ cups flour1 cup ground almonds1 tsp baking powderChelsea Icing Sugar for sprinkling

4.7

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
Method

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

16

What did you think of this recipe?

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.

Alex Landon-Lane

I use whole skin on almonds ground in my food processor for a stronger almond flavour and more texture as they are coarser than almond meal. Also I use as many plums as I can cram in the tin...more like 25! Needs extra baking time but is delicious.

Aisling

Very light cake with a lovely orange flavour. I used tinned plums and they sunk to the bottom. I should have inverted the cake before serving but everyone loved it anyway.

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

16

What did you think of this recipe?

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.

Alex Landon-Lane

Aisling

Very light cake with a lovely orange flavour. I used tinned plums and they sunk to the bottom. I should have inverted the cake before serving but everyone loved it anyway.