Recipe: Perfect Plum cake with plum jam

Plum cake with plum jam. Sterilise the jars and any other equipment before you start (see tip). This version has the cake topped with a homemade plum jam. Sprinkle evenly with topping, squeezing to create large clumps.

Since the meaning of the word "plum" has changed over time. Plums can be overlooked as a jam flavor option. In the grocery store you'll find strawberry jam, grape jelly, orange-lemon marmalade and maybe something a little off the beaten The recipe for plum jam is simple and comes from a beautiful book produced by Williams-Sonoma called The Art of Preserving. You can have Plum cake with plum jam using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Plum cake with plum jam

You need of For cake.
Prepare 1 cup of All purpose flour.
It's 3/4 cup of sugar.
Prepare 4 tbsp of butter.
You need 4-5 of plums (peeled and de-seeded).
It's of vanilla extract.
You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
It's pinch of salt.
You need 2 of eggs.
You need of For Jam.
You need 10-12 of plums.
It's 1.5 cups of sugar.
You need 0.5 tsp of cinnamon powder (optional).

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Plum cake with plum jam instructions

FOR CAKE: beat sugar and butter until light. Add eggs one by one and beat..
In another bowl, sift baking powder and all purpose flour together. Add it to the butter, sugar and eggs mixture gradually whisking and combining it. Beat until a fine batter is formed. If it is too thick, milk can be added for desired consistency..
Grease baking dish. Pour the batter and line plums cut in wedges on the top. Bake in a preheated oven at 180° for 35 minutes (or according to your settings of oven, mine took around 36 mins.).
While the cake bakes. Prepare the jam and cool it down. FOR JAM. Actually i didn't used any ingredient for setting the jam, but it worked well if you use seeds while cooking (i read it in a cook book), so cooking your plums with seeds in it actually helps..
Heat a pan or wok add half cut plums to it, add half a cup of water and give it a boil. Add sugar and stir continuously. Add half a cup of water again and stir. Cook over medium heat until it thickens (and its skin is almost dissolved) Switch off the heat and remove the seeds and let it cool down. Store it in a jar..
Cake out from the oven. Pour the jam. Serve.

Most plum jam recipes I've seen out there call for lemon juice for flavor balance and textural adjustment. But after trying jam with lemon juice and Five pounds of plums should leave you with about four pounds of plum flesh when you're done trimming. And keep those skins on, because much. A homemade butter cake batter is topped with sliced fresh plums and baked, for a simple yet special cake. I mixed the lemon zest with the plums instead and coated them with a little bit brown sugar which made them sweeter and look glossy at the end.