If you’re looking for the perfect summer bake… this is it.✨ This plum coffee cake is soft, sweet, and just the right amount ...

Recipe: A pretty plum cake is mixed with both olive oil and butter for a tender crumb with loads of flavor By Sally Pasley Vargas Globe Correspondent,Updated August 20, 2024, 12:15 p.m.

This plum cake isn’t the prettiest. But it tastes great and is a good way to use up fresh or frozen purple Italian prune plums.

Dear Noelle, Some years ago the LA Times published a recipe for upside down plum cake with cardamon and baked in a black frying pan. Is it possible to get a copy since I have lost mine. Thank you.

Recipe for plum cake August 20, 2013, 6:00 p.m. food styling/Sheryl Julian and Valerie Ryan; Essdras M Suarez/Globe Staff ...

The precursor to plum cake was a porridge-like dish made with dried fruits, oats, spices, and honey. The recipe evolved with the substitution of oats with flour, and the addition of eggs and butter.

Black plum cake with crumb topping, decorated wtih thinly sliced plums that didn't fit into the pan. (Photo by Judy Walker, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Here's the original recipe for Plum Cake ...

The recipe was passed down the family line and now the O’Malley descendants have been eating upside-down plum cake for at least a hundred years, each forkful rich with remembrance.

Bake until cake is deep golden brown, juices are bubbling around edge and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 45 minutes, rotating pan halfway through.

They shine in this olive oil cake. What olive oil in cake batter gives you is a tender crumb; it also keeps the baked cake from drying out. A good quality oil can impart a subtle, slightly fruity ...