Plum'in It.

I’ve been super busy this past week at a new jobbins so here’s an oldie but a goodie recipe!

I’ve done a similar recipe here but I changed it up a bit. I used blue plums (that were in season at the time, yay!) and some clover honey from the local market.

Blue Plum and Honey Upside-down Cake

12 Blue Plums, sliced thinly

4 TBSP butter 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup clover honey 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1 1/4 cup flour 1 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt

4 TBSP butter 3/4 cups granulated sugar 1 egg, well beaten 1/2 milk 1 tsp vanilla

9 inch round pan

1. To slice plums : With a sharp knife, make a slit around the centre of the plum, all the way around the pit. Twist one half of fruit off the pit. Remove the pit. Slice up the plum flesh.
2. Preheat your oven to 350’F.
3. Combine butter, sugar, honey and cinnamon in the round baking pan. Place pan in the oven for 2 minutes until butter is melted. Stir melted butter mixture in the pan together thoroughly. Arrange the sliced plums on top of the sugar mixture in the baking pan. Set aside.
4. In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
5. In an electric mixer, cream butter. Add sugar and beat until butter is light and fluffy. (It will literally change colour. From butter yellow to a light white yellow.)
6. Add pre-beaten egg. Stir.
7. Now combine flour and milk in with the sugar/egg mixture, alternating between adding milk and flour mixture. Mix each part until smooth before adding the next part.
8. Stir in vanilla.
9. Pour cake batter on top of the plums in the baking pan. Smooth the top so all the plums are covered.
10. Bake for ~50 minutes or until a fork inserted into centre of cake comes out clean.
11. After it’s done baking, let cool for an hour before you flip it out onto a serving platter. Serve warm or let cool completely and top with icing sugar.

De-ricious!

And hopefully I’ll be able to share some of my work-y endeavours soon! (Confidentially agreements are weird….)

-Andrea

The Half-Assed Hobbyist