Recipe for Fresh Plum Cake

can you f1reeze the plum cake?
thank you

I am just about to make this cake and wont think twice about freezing it. I have frozen all sorts of cakes in the past and I think this will freeze fine.

Hello Wendy,
Would be interested to discover how the frozen cake survived, I've frozen all sorts of cakes and would think this OK.
Jan

What a wonderful website, I was looking for a receipe for blackberry and apple jam and click onto the allotment website and found these wonderful receipes, this website is now in my favourites.

Joanna

great site have lots of plumbs forjam and now hope to bake myself a cake cheers

plum cake was gorgeous

Lovely recipe for plum cake. I have a glut of greengages at the allotment and have made lots of jam. Do you have a recipe for 'bottled' fruit, preferably incorporating alcohol? I think it would make a good Xmas present.

Don't make this cake unless you have a great deal of will power. Im about to make my third in a week! A great cake to share with friends over a cup of tea. Its seriously scrummy.

This cake is really good, and very easy to make! I tried it with rhubarb, and it was ok, but i found plums taste better than rhubarb. Overall, it's a yummy cake, and will definatly sell quickly at bake sales!

It's a fab cake, and is SOOOOOO scrummy! It's totally easy to make, and it's a good excuse to eat cake!!!

YUM

Great recipe and great tasting cake. I visit your web site all the time for recipes. Thank you.

This cake has been such a hit, it is the star recipe of the season within our community shop!

Hi, do I leave the skin on the plums?

soft fruit tend to go soggy and pulpy when frozen , I usually put a piece of cake in the freezer for a week, try it, then make a decision

what a wonderful recipe
I have just paid 2 nice big tins of cake and am happily munching on it now with some cream
Hubby loves it and hes not keen on plums i will definately be making this again
thank you for this wonferful recipe

Hello Sooo new to computer URL??? I don't know!!!
Your site is superb!! I just looked up RHUBARB & there you were! I've been making jam, chutney, pickles et al over 50 yrs. Now on crutches the 1st time EVER I've not made 3/4 lots marmalade ( & gutted!! ) I got into LIQUERS one year & have over 30 assorted in my pantry!! I planted a " mini orchard" but had old fruit trees already! My fresh PLUM cake is a little different to yours ( & it was in a leaflet the fresh food people put out in the 80's. ) I made a little cook book for a charity then!!

Made this lovely cake with vodka soaked wild cherry plums after I decanted the plum vodka I started last autumn. Great recipe!

This cake is fantastic. I bake 2 at the same time, 1 to eat immediatley and 1 to freeze. The answer is yes, it does freeze really well – not quite as good at fresh, but still good.

Does the 8oz of plums include the weight of the stones? Sorry – bit of an amateur here!

I am a complete novice at cake making but I managed to knock this plum cake out in a matter of minutes and to everyones great surprise it tasted FAB. Thank you. Also been following the Jam recipes.

i have just made this cake it is fantastic and will be making many more. thank you

Made this cake this afternoon (28.8.10) but in a loaf tin, so gave it a bit longer in the oven. Absolutely sublime! My family have ate the lot!

Very quick and easy to make. Delicious warm with cream or cold with a cuppa. Lovely!

This cake is the best cake we have ever tasted , it didn't last long. My wife is making a second one now.

I am puzzled by 'baking margarine' in the recipe (stork brand maybe??) – would butter work as well please? I try to avoid processed fats you see… Thanks!

hi could i use half plums half apples?? im a bit new at this baking thing!!

Hi

This sounds very naughty but nice ! We have 3 'damson' trees which we inherited on our lottie can I use these ??

Thanks Samantha

Great thanks – will keep you posted

Well first attempt at this recipe and I used Damsons. Had to warm them to get stones out but apart from that followed recipe as instructed. Baked for an hour in pre-heated gas oven and still very moist – not wet or undercooked but bread pudding wet without the heaviness. Is it a moist one or is it because my fruit was more of a puree ?? Anyhow it is very nice not sweet will be smashing warm with ice cream or clotted cream or even custard I think – pudding for me more than cake yum yum thanks.

second helping when cold definately damson bread pudding without the bread yum

We have just had a piece of FRESH PLUM CAKE with Creme Fraiche and it was straight from the oven, All I can say is mmmmmmmmmmmmm, we have honestly never tasted a plum cake like it. I will recommend it to all of my friends. THANK YOU Joy Davis.

Just made it for the 4th time in a week – thanks for a great recipe!

Found your recipe on the net because I had a glut of plums.
It is truly a decedant cake. I took it into work and everyone wants the recipe. I am cooking another one now.

Yesterday picked 11lbs plums from my only tree (only a fraction of what is there) to make jam – thats on the go now but still have stacks of plums left, this was the first plum cake recipe I came to so have just made it and it's in the oven now, by the look of all the comments I shall be making another and another and another!!!

Made the damson jam which turned out really well, now giving the plum cake a try. Cheers for reciepes excellent site!

Loved the plum cake recipe. Had actually put excess Victoria Plums in freezer, defrosted and used in this recipe worked well. As for freezing the cake, would work but I dont think that is going to happen!!!

I was searching for a plum cake recipe to use up some of our (many) Victorias and came across this one. I can agree 100% with all the other reviewers in that it's absolutely gorgeous!! I left out the sultanas because I hate them and threw in a few more plums. I actually made three different plum cakes including two of these. One was eaten very quickly and the other went in the freezer. It soon came back out again though! I cut it into pieces before freezing and it was fine. We even defrosted it in the microwave then served it warm with cream fraiche. Scrumptious! It's definitely become a favourite in our house and we shall be making it regularly including trying it with apples so thanks!

I made this plum cake after doing an online search for a recipe to use up plums I had left in the fruit bowl. I didn't add sultanas as I didn't have any but instead added a chopped apple. The result was delicious! My "I dont like plums" household devoured it in a few hours!! So thanks very much for the fab recipe. I have to say the site is great too. Lots of good information.

Just made this cake, never had enough weight in plums so substituted 20g for apples and sultanas, still as scrummy!!

This recipe is new for me and amazinG

( Wakko ) recipe with apples!!!

Just made 1 cake and 12 muffins using double quantities. Cooked muffins for last 20mins worked really well. Substituted unsalted butter for margarine no probs

Brilliant cake. Made it with the green plums that we have to collect to lighten the tree and stop it breaking. Really yummy. Made two in the last few days. So quick and easy. Any other ideas for a trug full of green plums?

I froze one slice to see, it was delish, and tasted like old fashion bread pud, all moist. Making more tomorrow.

I loved mine, and I think I actually liked it best as a cold tray bake even though hot was good too. Just made a Dorset apple cake which is collapsing (very crumbly), so next time will use this recipe with apples as I know it works so well with plums. We live and learn!

Oooh, we have wasted so many plums as our tree is breaking. Fantastic idea!!!

Just taken this cake out of the oven. Looks and smells divine. Substituted 4oz of SR flour for ground almonds and added a scant half tspn baking powder. I'll post again when we've tried it…very soon!

I made this cake last year and froze it successfuly too. I'm about to make it again today. It is absolutely gorgeous.

My garden is bursting with cooking and eating apples, plums and blackberries and, in my search to find recipes so I can use them up, I happened upon the Allotment website. Perfect.

Made this cake for the first time today – my best advice for anyone thinking of making this is – double the recipe – make 2!! So yummy even my fussy kids loved it. Fantastic.

Thank you I am trying different plum recipes as I have a lovely plum tree in my garden then it will be into Autumn and apple tree next!
Thank you it sounds delicious and I will use the last persons advice and make two, one for the family and one for me which will be gluten and dairy free!

Can I use stewed plums?

Stumbled across this site whilst looking for plum jam recipe. I am now just about to try the plum cake recipe sounds gorgeous. Will use this site more often now. Thank you

Lots of plums this year so I thought I'd use this recipe to make a cake as well as jam. Result, lots of cake and no jam. Oh, well. Do try this recipe.

Not usually good at cakes but this one was brilliant. Will be making more and trying variations such as damsons, pears,apples, more spice and substituting ground almonds for some of flour. Cheers

Hi just had to comment this cake is the best plum cake made, cake did not last a day you just can't keep your fingers off it. Website is a goldmine, have favourited it so I don't lose the site. Many thanks

This cake is brilliant – it disappears as soon as it is made. Even when I accidently left it in the oven for an extra 20min – it came out delicious and moist.

Unfortunately by the time I discovered the recipe I had stewed and frozen most of our glut of plums. Does anyone know of a good cake that can be made with rather runny stewed plums? Otherwise we are going to be eating lots of crumbles and pies this winter.

Made this with damsons instaed of plums and it was delicious – a great hit with the family. Have just discovered your site and have saved it in my favourites as I'm sure I will be visiting it regularly

This is the most delicious cake I have ever eaten!!! Everyone else who tried it loved it too. I'm no baker, but this is easy, and perfect every time. Thank you so much for this recipe!

do you think it will go well with apples and plums.