I recently found a Polish Plum Cake Recipe (Placek z Sliwkami) recipe by Barbara Rolek.
I changed the recipe a bit since I was short on some ingredients.
I used whole wheat flour instead of unbleached flour like I would typically use in a cake recipe. I also only had 4 plums and a handful of blueberries.
Before baking...
Did you spot my mistakes yet? I pushed the fruits too deep into the dough, used a much too small pan (a 11/5 by 8 inch pan), and did not have enough anywhere near the needed amount of plums (I used 5 instead of 40, big difference).
Probably because there was a significantly insufficient amount of plums in the recipe, the ground clove came across too strong and gave the cake almost a soapy flavor. I plan to use just a tiny pinch less next time.
I also ended up baking it for much longer than the recipe called for since the toothpick I kept putting in was coming own with uncooked dough on it. Which I am thinking perhaps having more plums in next time and having a larger pan might actually fix that next time.
Perhaps using the whole wheat flour isn't such a big deal, I'm not exactly sure. I think that next time I will mix 1/2 and 1/2 with unbleached flour.
After baking...
And the slice I attempted to photograph while little hands kept grabbing it.
My husband, my Tato (Father) and myself? We all enjoyed it as well. But...
It was not the cake I remember my Babcia making. Nor is it the plum version of the apple cake my cousin made for everyone the last time we were in Poland. Perhaps with a bit of personal tweaking and my better following of the recipe, it will be.
Perhaps I will be lucky enough that my Babcia will remember long enough to mail me a copy of her recipe.
Smacznego!
4 comments:
it looks delicious although I am not crazy about cakes with whole wheat flour. I like it in pizza or bread, but not in cakes.
Anyway I really like the idea of using a blueberries with it. It really sounds like a great cake.
I would never be able to spot any mistakes. I'm a disaster in the kitchen! :P
It definitely looks delicious.
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This is great! Plum cake was the first thing I learned to make when I lived in Poland.
btw, it's typically written "ze śliwkami", probably because it's just too hard to say without the extra vowel.
Hezia
I haven't made plum cake in a few years. Reading your post made me want to dig out my recipe again.
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