“Do not be afraid to go out on a limb. . .That’s where the fruit is.”
Fresh Plum Spice Cake
Blogging is greatly inspiring. It’s opens the mind to new ideas & makes you look at everything differently. Food blogging for foodies like me goes even a step further. A fruit means more than just a chomp now; it eggs me on to try & widen my horizons!
Cherries have all but disappeared from the market; they show up for a very short period in summer. Peaches, plums & mangoes still rule the roost, with mangoes creating a sort of flood. I’m in a hurry to try out something fruitfully plummy because plums are gonna disappear soon too. Until now, a plum was a mere juicy fruit to dig your teeth into & get splattered with juice ; also a connection to a beautiful colour. Googling opened new vistas & I set forth to try & experiment with a fresh plum cake. Would have thrown some ground almonds in too, but almonds being expensive, didn’t have the heart to take a chance. As an after thought, they may well have tasted wonderful. *Sigh*…next time maybe, but I am rapidly turning into a ‘try everything at least once’ sort of a person…& ‘the everything at least once list’ is rapidly expanding towards infinity; at the best of times is quite daunting! Also, have to balance calories, the bane of our existence!! What a challenging thing life is!!
Serving up a slice of happiness…
Ingredients:
Plums – 8 ; pitted & quartered
Pistachio nuts – ½ cup ; roughly chopped
Butter – ½ cup
Sugar – 1 cup
Eggs – 2
Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp
Almond Extract – 1 tsp
Flour – 1 cup
Cinnamon powder – 1 tbsp
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Salt – ¼ tsp
Topping :
Sugar – 2 tbsps
Cinnamon powder – 1 tsp
Method:
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees c. Grease & line bottom of a non-stick Victoria sandwich tin.
Then turn out onto rack & gently peel off the lining off the top, scraping back any fruit that might cling on to the lining.
Give it a generous sprinkling of powdered sugar & the remaining chopped pistachios. Can dust with powdered sugar before serving again. Serve warm with a drizzle of whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice-cream.
the kids saying very yummy are lucky to have such a mummy 🙂
And healthy brownies? that sounds like an oxymoron but they still extremely indulgent!
oh btw, that was me…A_and_N 🙂
its really a pleasure to come here and see your lovely cakes 🙂 plums.. hmm. they are available here all year round I think but expensive!
Deeba,
This is a great healthy cake. I love the color and hm… pistachio 🙂
I have loads of plums… should make this sometime 🙂
Ca I say yummy as well?
Calories only count when you eat that something over and over and in excess, hee 🙂
What a coincidence! I just posted my plum dessert too! Yours looks delicious!
Yummy cake Deeba..looks so tempting!!
Deeba your cake looks so wonderful I want to rush and get some plums. I don’t buy plums more than once as I prefer other summer fruit like cherries, apricots and peaches. Must try this.
Good looking cake and kids you’ve got there Deeba!
Yum, yum, yum, Deeba! Great use of plums! 🙂
Nice fruity cake Deeba and beautiful kids. Knock on wood.
I agree about trying everything once and the balancing of calories. As far as I’m concerned, we might as well avoid all the junk out there and indulge in these yummy treats! This stuff is just plain old good for the soul!;-)
Ooh with food critics like that, I completely belive that it is really yummy, the colour are so beautiful too 🙂
Gorgeous cake, Deeba! The green pistachios add such a lovely colour to the plums. Kinda reminds me of Christmas! 😀
Very colourful cake. Though plums are not a favourite, pistachios are!
I’ve not got the details, Deeba. Still waiting.:(
Love the combination of plum and pistachio. Great cake
I love it! You’re right we must try everything once…. with food, I really can’t commit to parachuting or anything like that. Your cake looks like heaven. I love the combination of colors. AND, your children are too adorable. I wish you all could drop by for an afternoon together either at the pool or on one of our nature hikes through the Santa Cruz Mountains. We would have to pack a lunch, of course, with this cake as our little treat.
Tanti baci, bella,
Amy
What a gorgeous cake!
I love the colors on this cake!
I love those brilliant pieces of moist plum that are tucked into that cake, Deeba. It’s beautiful. Are those your children? They’re much more beautiful!
your cake looks so delicious! I love pistachio nuts a lot! in fact, i made a loaf bread with pistachios this morning:)