Odessa sweet cake with sour plums
Cuisine: Odessa
Author: Maria Kalenska
Prep time: 30 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Total time: 50 mins


Ingredients
  • 12 small plums or 6 large plums
  • 125 g butter
  • 180 g sugar
  • 200 g flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • seeds of 1 vanilla bean or 1 tsp vanilla paste
  • For sprinkling the plums:
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
Cooking method
  1. Heat the oven to 160°C. Wash the plums, dry them, cut them in two and remove the pits. ⠀
  2. In a large bowl, mix the butter and sugar until white. Mix flour with baking powder. Add eggs, salt, vanilla to the butter and mix well. Add flour and knead the dough.
  3. Butter a baking dish. Evenly distribute the dough in the baking dish. Place the plums on top, sideways or skin down. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Bake the cake for 30-40 minutes.
My tips and tricks
If your plums are too juicy, here's an idea for how to solve this problem and reduce the amount of liquid in your pastry. It doesn't matter what recipe you cook from. Prepare the plums in advance, for example the day before you are going to use them. Cut and pit the plums. Place in a bowl and refrigerate uncovered overnight. During this time, the plums will "dry out" slightly and will not ruin your cake. Every time you cook from my recipe, my life gets one day longer. This is probably the most popular recipe on the blog. If you make this cake, I will live forever

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