Here is a recipe for German Plum Cake, simple and light at the same time! This German Plum Cake is very healthy because it is made with a lightly sweetened yeast dough and garnished only with plums, a little brown sugar and cinnamon. I used a lot of plums and they make this cake super moist.
Prep Time 20 minutesmins
Cook Time 35 minutesmins
Resting time 2 hourshrs
Course Cake
Cuisine German
Servings 12
Calories 372kcal
Ingredients
For the dough
500gflour
230mlof milk
7gof dry yeast
120gsugar
120gbuttersoft
1egg
Vanilla extract
For the filling
2kgof plums
45gof brown sugar
1teaspoonof cinnamon
Instructions
Start by heating the milk. The temperature should be slightly warm, below 35°C to avoid killing the yeast.
Pour the milk into a small bowl, add the dry yeast, a spoonful of sugar and flour taken from the total amount. Mix and let stand for 15 minutes to activate the yeast.
In a large bowl, pour the flour and sugar. Add the milk and yeast mixture and mix with a kitchen machine. Add the butter and then the egg. Knead the dough for 5 minutes. Cover the bowl with a damp cloth. Let the dough rise between 2 and 12 hours at room temperature in a relatively warm place.
Then wash the plums, remove the pit and cut them into 4.
After minimum two hours of resting, the dough should have doubled in volume. Remove the air by flattening the dough and knead it for 2 minutes. Roll out the dough into a rectangle the size of your baking sheet.
Line the baking sheet with parchment paper and butter the edges well so they don’t stick. Place the dough on the bottom of the baking sheet and arrange the plums on top. Sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon.
Bake in the oven (conventional heat) for 30-35 min at 200 °C. Let the cake stand for 15 minutes before serving.