Holiday Baking is full of fruits and spices, and what better way to celebrate than with a piece of this gorgeous Upside-Down Spiced Plum Cake! I have this eternal love for plums – their color and vibrancy just fill me up! But here’s a recipe that will blow you away! The beautiful Red is complimented by the wonderful Green of the Pistachios that go into this Plum cake. And the spices like cinnamon & nutmeg only take it to the highest taste level! This Plum Cake recipe is unlike any other you may have come across; and the prettiest one you’ll see on a holiday dinner table![Recipe & photo courtesy of Deeba from Passionate About Baking]
Ingredients
8 Plums – (pitted & quartered)
1/2 cup Pistachio nuts – roughly chopped
1/2 cup Butter
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 tsp Almond Extract
1 cup Flour
1 tbsp Cinnamon powder
1 tsp Nutmeg powder
1 tsp Baking powder
1/4 tsp Salt
Spiced Topping
2 tbsp Brown Sugar
1 tsp Cinnamon powder
Method
Preheat the oven to 375 deg F. Grease & line bottom of a non-stick cake pan with parchment paper and keep it ready.
Sift flour, cinnamon, nutmeg & baking powder and salt together and keep aside.
Sprinkle 1/4 cup chopped pistachios on the base of tin. Top evenly with chopped plums.
Cream butter & sugar till fluffy. Add eggs and both the extracts & beat well. Finally mix in the flour mixture. Pour this batter evenly over the plums & pistachios.
Mix the cinnamon & sugar for the topping in a small bowl. Sprinkle over the top evenly & bake for 35-40 minutes.
Allow to cool in the pan for 20 minutes. 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. Serve this colorful and healthy Spiced Plum Cake with a drizzle of whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice-cream!
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Cranberry Plum Sauce with Rose Water
Indonesian Spiced Cake
Traditional Pumpkin Pie
Wow Mansi, you are really my guru for baking.I can cook anything veggie,but when it comes to baking…I tend to ignore it. I also love plums and this cake really looks beautiful!!!
Gopi, Deeba is the baking guru, not me:) though I am good at baking:) hehehe…glad you liked the cake – its one of my recent favorites too!
cake looks so delicious!! i have been following your blog since a long time, you have such a wonderful blog:)
that is so going on my Thanksgiving table! lovely recipe:)
~jen