Plum Almond Cake

This Plum Almond Cake is an easy cake but so rich and fruity, full of flavors and perfect for tea or coffee. You can even have a slice for breakfast as it is not overly sweet.

Course Dessert

Cuisine Mediterranean

Keyword Plum Almond Cake

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 15

Servings servings

Calories 463kcal

Author Sonila

Equipment

Ingredients

2.5 cups all purpose flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
5 plums
1 cup sugar
1 stick unsalted butter
3 eggs
0.5 cups olive oil
1 cup yogurt
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp almond extract
1 lemon juice and zest
2 ozs orange liquor
0.5 cup sliced almonds
0.25 cup powdered sugar
0.5 cup raw cane sugar or brown sugar
pinch salt don't add if you're using salted butter

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (about 180 C)
Add baking powder and baking soda over all purpose flour, whisk and set aside.
Using a handheld mixer, mix eggs and sugar until creamy. Add butter and continue mixing. Add slowly the vanilla extract, almond extract, lemon juice, orange liquor, olive oil, yogurt and mix until everything is incorporated.
Slowly add the flour mix, add little by little not all at once. Add pinch of salt too. Once it's hard to mix with the mixer, remove and use the spatula to scrape the side and mix into the batter. Add chopped plums and lemon zest and fold into the batter with spatula.
Add brown sugar over sliced plums and let the plums absorb it.
Spray the springform pan with non-stick spray, then flour lightly. Add batter on the pan and use the spatula to spread evenly.
Add sugared sliced plums over batter and create a symmetric pattern to your taste, it'll make the cake look so pretty.
Spread the sliced almonds over plums. Bake for about 1 hour.
Let the cake cool down for few hours before cutting into it. Garnish with powdered sugar before serving. Enjoy:)

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Notes

Leftovers - I cover the leftovers with a plastic wrap or if you have a sealed cake stand, it's good on room temperature for a day. Then I refrigerate for 2-3 days. It never lasts longer than that.

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