Cake with Fruit on Top | Fresh Plum Cake

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Cake with Fruit on Top | Fresh Plum Cake

Vanilla Cake with Fruit on Top is a basic and simple, moist, and crowd-pleasing dessert recipe perfect for summer, holidays, parties, or any time of the year. Top it with your favorite fresh seasonal fruit.

Prep Time1 30

Cook Time45

Total Time2 15

Course: Desserts

Cuisine: American

Diet: Vegetarian

Servings:

Calories: 384kcal

Author: Kushi

Equipment

Cake pan

Ingredients

For the cake

¾ cup Sugar
⅔ cup Butter softened
1 Egg
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 ½ teaspoon Baking powder
¼ teaspoon Salt
1 ½ cups All purpose flour
¼ cup Sour cream Yogurt
⅓ cup Milk

For the fruit topping

2 tablespoon Butter
1 teaspoon Lemon juice
4 to 6 tablespoon Sugar
3 Plums use any fruit like peaches, nectarine, fig etc.
Pistachios roughly chopped

Instructions

Prepare the vanilla cake

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8- or 9-inch baking pan or line it with parchment paper, and set it aside.
Cream butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer until pale and creamy.
¾ cup Sugar, ⅔ cup Butter
Add egg and vanilla and mix until well combined.
1 Egg, 2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Add baking powder, salt, flour, sour cream, and milk. Mix until you get a smooth and thick cake batter.
1 ½ teaspoon Baking powder, ¼ teaspoon Salt, 1 ½ cups All purpose flour, ¼ cup Sour cream, ⅓ cup Milk
Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.
Bake for about 40 to 50 minutes or until toothpick or knife inserted comes out clean.
Let this cool for about 10 minutes.
Remove from the pan and place it on a wire rack so that it cools down completely.

Prepare the fruit topping and assemble

Wash and chop the plums lengthwise. Keep the skin on.
In a non-stick pan, add butter, lemon juice, and sugar, and once it starts to bubble, add the plums and cook for about 3 to 5 minutes till they are blanched and lightly caramelized and the juices are released from them.
2 tablespoon Butter, 1 teaspoon Lemon juice, 4 to 6 tablespoon Sugar, 3 Plums
With a serrated knife, slice about ⅛th inch top of the cake to get a flat top surface. Poke holes using a toothpick or a fork.
Spoon plums and any juices on top of the cake.
Garnish it with pistachios. Serve with whipped cream or whipped mascarpone, and enjoy.
Pistachios

Notes

Instead of fresh plums, you can use peaches, apples, mangoes, pineapples, pears, figs, etc. This cake batter tastes good with any seasonal fruits.
You may have to adjust the sugar in the topping based on how sweet your fruit is.
For additional flavor, you can add lemon zest to the batter.
Instead of sour cream, you can add an additional 1 egg.
Any leftover cake can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
I made the cake with Truvia nectar earlier and have now tried it with sugar and updated it. You can even use honey in the recipe.

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