Plum And Almond Cake Recipe

Plums and Almond are some of my favorite fruit of September. We can find them fresh and tasty in the market to eat them as raw fruit or prepare various delicious recipes. This Plum And Almond Cake Recipe is just yummy. Plums and Almonds combine very well in this recipe, and the fabulous taste of fresh plums stands out even more after they baked in the cake. And the sliced almonds complete the perfect taste in this recipe.
Plum is a fruit tree that grows all around the world in different varieties.
About the nutritional values, plum is mainly water in 87%, carbohydrates in 11%, and protein 1%. It is a good source of our daily food energy. In 100 g plums, we can get up to 48 kilocalories and 12% of our daily value of Vitamin C.

We can find fresh plums from the spring till the autumn in the market, using them raw, or processed and conserve it in jams, jellies, confiture, compote, puree, dry fruit. It is the ingredient to produce a very qualitative brandy (Plum Albanian Raki).
We can cook delicious cakes, tarts, muffins, bread, and other sweets recipes with this fruit. This recipe is one of them for a great dessert after our family lunch or dinner, to have with a coffee, tea, or a glass of juice and milk in our breakfasts.

If you are a lover of fruit cake recipes, I invite you also to read our:

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Ingredients

• 240 g all-purpose flour
• 200 g of plums in pieces and 2 -3 plums for decorating the cake
• 80 g unsalted butter or vegetal oil
• 2-eggs or 100 ml of milk
• 150 g of brown sugar
• 80 g of low-fat Greek yogurt or natural white yogurt
• 2 tbsp of ground almonds
• 2 tbsp of sliced almonds
• 16 g of baking powder
• 1 tsp of cinnamon
• lemon zest
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Directions

1. First, we prepare all the ingredients before starting to make the cake.
2. We cut the cleaned plums in pieces and keep apart. The other plums that we will use for the decor, we cut in thin slices. In a small pan, we melt the butter. We chop almonds with a sharp knife finely. You can bye the slice almonds ready, but we can also prepare them by ourselves. In a bowl, we add 2-3 tbsp of almonds and hot water and let them sit for some minutes. After that, we can peel them easily and cut them in slices with a sharp knife.
3. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees.
4. In a deep bowl, add eggs and sugar and beat together until it made a creamy foam.
5. We ground the lemon zest with a hand grater and add to the egg mixture.
6. We add the melted butter and continue to mix it.
7. Add the Greek yogurt and mix it, completing the liquid mixture for our cake.
8. In another bowl, we mix the flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, and we add these all to the liquid mixture, mixing well until to make the cake dough.
9. Add the ground almonds and cut plumes in pieces and mix well. If the dough may result in very dry, you can add 1-2 tbsp of milk.
10. Grease and flourish a cake stencil and add the dough in it.
11. We decorate the top of the cake with the sliced plums and almonds. Add 1-2 tbsp of brown sugar over the plums, pushing a little these in the cake dough, and put it to bake in the preheated oven for 50-60 minutes.
12. Let it cool, and after that, transfer in a serving plate cooling completely.
    Serve it for your meal dessert combining with your favorite ice cream.

Bon Appetit!

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