Old German Plum Cake
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A yummy German plum cake.
Course
Cake
Cuisine 
Ingredients
For the crumble mixture
- 300 g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 150 g sugar
- 1 egg
- Pinch of salt
For the quark mixture
- 3 eggs
- 100 g butter
- 150 g sugar
- 2 tbsp breadcrumbs
- 800 g plums
- 500 g quark
- 1 tbsp vanilla sugar
- ½ lemon zest and juice
- 35 g cornflour
Instructions
- The Old German Plum Cake is deliciously moist. Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt.
- Add the egg. Distribute small bits of butter across the flour and knead by hand until you have a crumbly mixture.
- Grease a 24cm springform tin, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, and press ⅔ of the crumble mixture into the base. Ensure it’s distributed evenly and press down to form a small edge.
- Halve the plums and remove the stones.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- In a separate bowl, mix the quark with sugar and the vanilla sugar. Zest the lemon and squeeze its juice, then mix both into the quark mixture.
- Whisk in the eggs and the cornflour.
- Spread the quark mixture over the crumb base and top with halved plums.
- Sprinkle the remaining crumble mixture over the plums.
- Bake the cake on the middle shelf for 70 minutes.
- After baking, leave the cake in the turned-off oven for an additional 10 minutes.
- Allow the cake to cool in the tin. Once cooled, carefully remove the outer ring.
- Let the cake cool completely before slicing.