Description
Upside Down Plum Cake recipe includes punchy passionfruit works beautifully with finely sliced plums and a light cake with almond flour and polenta to make this upside down cake a modern version of an old classic.
Ingredients
Syrup
60 milliliters / 1/4 cup water
50 grams / 1/4 cup superfine/caster sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
1 passionfruit pulp
Cake
65 grams / 2.3 ounces butter, room temperature
125 grams / 2/3 cup superfine/caster sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon sea or kosher salt salt
71 grams / 1/4 cup Greek yogurt
50 grams / 1/2 cup almond flour
120 grams / 3/4 cup plain flour
40 grams / 1/4 cup polenta
4 grams / 1 teaspoon baking powder
3 grams / 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
300 grams / 2/3 pound plums, sliced into 1/8 slices and pit removed
Instructions
Syrup
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F and greaseproof your cake tin.
- To make the syrup, place the water, sugar and ground cardamom into a saucepan on medium heat, until the sugar has dissolved, and the syrup has simmered for approximately 3 minutes.
- Add the passionfruit pulp and allow to simmer for a further 3 minutes until slightly thickened.
- Pour the syrup into your cake tin and smooth out evenly across the base of your tin.
- Lay the sliced plums down into the syrup around the entire base of your cake tin. Set aside.
Cake
- Meanwhile, place the butter and sugar into a bowl and beat until combined, approximately 2 minutes with a hand beater.
- Add the eggs and whip until well combined and fluffy, a further 2 minutes with a hand beater.
- Toss in the Greek yogurt and vanilla extract and fold until well combined and smooth.
- Add the almond flour, polenta, plain flour, baking soda and baking powder to the wet ingredients and fold through until the batter is smooth.
- Pour the cake batter on top of the plums and spread out evenly, tapping the base of the cake tin to ensure bubbles have been removed from the batter.
- Place in the oven and bake for 50 minutes or until golden brown on top and a skewer comes out clean in the center.
- Remove and allow to cool for 5 minutes before inverting onto a plate.
- Allow to cool.
- Slice and serve with a spoonful of whipped cream or Greek yogurt.
- Dig in!
Notes
Recipe by Roamingtaste
Nutrition
- Calories: 210 calories per serve
Keywords: summer, fruit, snack cake