Brown Sugar Plum Cake
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- 1 1/3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ginger
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup butter (softened)
- 1/2 cup plus 1 Tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/3 cup vanilla oat milk (almond milk or regular milk)
- 8 plums (pitted and quartered)
For the frosting:
- 12 Tablespoons butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups powdered sugar
Instructions:
For the cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8 inch square or round cake pan with butter. Line the bottom with parchment paper and sprinkle flour around the sides, turning the pan upside down and tapping to remove excess flour.
- Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and salt in a small bowl and set aside.
- Cream together the butter and brown sugar with a mixer until smooth.
- Add the egg and vanilla, mixing just until combine.
- Add the dry ingredients and the milk in 2 alternating additions, mixing just until combined.
- Spread the cake batter evenly in the prepared cake pan.
- Arrange the plum slices on top of the cake batter to cover the whole cake and sprinkle with the remaining Tablespoon of brown sugar.
- Bake at 350 degrees F. for 50-60 minutes until browned, and a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool for about 10 minutes before sliding a knife around the edges and turning out onto a cooling rack and removing the parchment paper from the bottom. Cool completely before frosting.
For the frosting:
- Combine the butter, brown sugar and heavy cream in a medium saucepan over medium low heat.
- Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, to dissolve the sugar.
- Once the mixture is at a rolling boil, and the sugar is dissolved completely, remove from the heat. Stir in vanilla.
- Transfer the mixture to a bowl and refrigerate until completely cooled, about an hour.
- Combine the cooled mixture with the powdered sugar using a mixer until creamy and smooth. If you find that the mixture is too runny, add more powdered sugar. If it is too stiff, add a little bit of milk. It should be creamy and spreadable, but it should not be a very stiff icing for piping.
- Spread over cooled plum cake and serve.