Plum cake
Ingredients
for 16 pieces
600 g | white flour |
¼ tsp | salt |
3 tbsp | cane sugar |
1 parcel | vanilla sugar |
½ cube | yeast (approx. 20 g), crumbled |
60 g | butter, cut into pieces, soft |
3 ½ dl | milk, lukewarm |
1 kg | plum, halved, pitted, cut into segments (yields approx. 900 g) |
150 g | almond slivers |
100 g | ground almonds |
50 g | white flour |
3 tbsp | cane sugar |
100 g | butter, cut into pieces, soft |
How it's done
Dough
In a bowl, mix the flour with all the other ingredients up to and including the yeast. Add the butter and milk, mix and knead into a soft, smooth dough. Cover and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 1 hr. until doubled in size. Transfer the dough to the prepared oven tray, press flat. Top with the plums, press down lightly.
Crumble
Mix the almond slivers and all the remaining ingredients, distribute the crumble over the plums.
Bake
Place the oven tray in the centre of a cold oven and bake for approx. 50 mins. at 180°C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool on a cooling rack.
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