Spiced Plum Coffee Cake
This spiced plum coffee cake is as delicious as it is beautiful and is wonderful as a quick breakfast or as an addition to brunch.
Ingredients
- 5 plums 2 sliced, 3 diced
- 1-½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¾ cups sugar divided
- 1-½ cups all-purpose flour +2 Tbsp
- 1-½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 stick butter melted and cooled
- 2 tablespoon water
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a small bowl, combine cinnamon and 3 1/ 2 tablespoons granulated sugar.
- Dice 3 plums and cut 2 into thin slices.
- Toss diced plums in cinnamon sugar. Set aside. Toss slices in cinnamon sugar and set aside as well (separate from diced).
- Whisk flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
- Combine remaining granulated sugar, ½ cup of brown sugar, melted butter, water, vanilla extract and eggs together in a medium-sized bowl. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until well combined.
- Pour ⅓ of the batter into a greased loaf pan. Spread half of the diced plums over the batter. Pour another ⅓ batter over the plums and top with the remaining diced plums. Pour the rest of the batter in and top with sliced plums.
- Pour any remaining liquid from the plums over the top.
- Bake for 1-1 ½ hours or until a toothpick comes out clean.
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