This is a recipe for 1 sheet cake or jelly roll pan, about 16×13 inches (40×32 cm).
Prep Time1 hourhr30 minutesmins
Cook Time30 minutesmins
Servings: 12
Calories: 414kcal
Ingredients
Yeast Dough
3 ½cups(500 g) all-purpose flour
¼cup(50 g) granulated sugar
1teaspoonsalt
¾cup(200 ml) lukewarm milk
21g(½ cube) fresh yeastor 1 envelope dry active yeast
1egg plus 1 egg yolk
6tablespoons(80 g) softened butter
Topping
2.2pounds(1 kg) prune plums*or regular plums
¼cup(50 g) granulated sugar
1teaspoonground cinnamon
Streusel
1 ¼cups(180 g) all-purpose flour
1teaspoonground cinnamon
Pinchsalt
½cup(100 g) granulated sugar
½cup(125 g) butter
Instructions
Add flour, sugar and salt to the bowl of your stand mixer. Dissolve yeast in lukewarm milk. Add the milk and yeast, egg, yolk and butter to the flour and knead mixture with the dough hook on medium speed (speed 4 on Kitchen Aid) for 5 minutes, or knead by hand for 10 minutes. Cover bowl and allow dough to rise for about 30 minutes.
In the meantime, wash, pit and quarter the plums lengthwise. Combine cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl and set aside.
Knead dough a few times and allow it to rest for 10 minutes while you make the streusel: in a medium-sized bowl, stir together flour, cinnamon, salt and sugar. Cut cold butter into cubes and work it into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter or with your fingers until mixture holds together in clumps when squeezed. Set aside.
Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C) conventional (top and bottom) heat if possible. Line a large (about 16×13 inches or 40×32 cm) rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Lightly flour your work surface and roll dough out to the size of your baking sheet and lay it on the parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Arrange the plums on top of the dough, cut side up, in rows, slightly overlapping. Sprinkle plums with the cinnamon-sugar. Then top with the streusel.
Bake Plum Cake for about 30 minutes. Test for doneness by sticking a knife into the center of the cake and if there is no dough sticking to it, it’s done. Serve warm!
Notes
*Zwetschken: aka Italian Prune Plums, European or Empress Plums.Recipe adapted fromSpar.