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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 cake 1046g Recipe makes 1 cake)
Calories 3340
Calories from Fat 1554		(46%)
Amount Per Serving		%DV
	Total Fat 172.7g	265%
	Saturated Fat 105.7g	528%
	Monounsaturated Fat 45.1g
	Polyunsaturated Fat 8.3g
	Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 643mg		214%
Sodium 1745mg		72%
Potassium 999mg		28%
Total Carbohydrate 412.9g		137%
	Dietary Fiber 13.9g	55%
	Sugars 167.6g
Protein 43.0g		86%
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German Plum Cake

Recipe #41721 | 1¼ hours | 20 min prep | add private note

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By: Sackville
Oct 1, 2002

This cake is actually known as Zwetschgendatschi in Bavaria, where it is most popular. Roughly translated from Bavarian to German, it would be called Pflaumenkuchen or plum cake in English. BUT Zwetschgen aren't ordinary plums, a Datschi isn't really a Kuchen, and a Kuchen is most definitely not a cake! Or at least not a tall, spongy cake — it's flatter. Ideally, for this dessert you want the slightly tart Italian plums. If you do have to use another type of plum, be careful the variety you choose isn't too juicy.

1 cake (change servings and units)

Ingredients

1/4 lb butter
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 tablespoon sour cream
1 pinch salt (only if you use unsalted butter)
1 teaspoon lemon, rind of
1 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups plums, pitted and sliced into thin wedges

For the topping

6 tablespoons butter
3/4 cup flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Directions

1
In a large bowl, cream the butter, add the sugar, vanilla, egg, lemon peel, sour cream and salt (if desired).
2
Mix the flour and baking powder and add that into the mixture.
3
Grease the base of a round baking pan and spread the dough over the pan.
4
Liberally spread plums over the dough.
5
To make the optional topping, cream the butter, add flour, sugar and cinnamon.
6
Sprinkle over the plums and bake for 30-45 minutes in the middle rack at 375 F.
7
Be careful not to let the bottom burn!
8
Serve with lots of freshly-made whipped cream.
9
If you like, you may also sprinkle rum or cinnamon over the fruit before baking.

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From: Trish Za Dish

On Aug 31, 2009

As a child we had a German elderly couple who lived across the fence. Often they would send a plum cake and we would eat it all before it hit the table.it was so yummy. I was looking for that cake when I tried this recipe. But as for this cake.... The flavors were great, but the density of the base cake was too thick. next time I will decrease the flour by 3/4 cups (or so) and hopefully it will lighten and seem more moist. In the top I will decreas the flour too. I could sure taste the flour in the crumb topping.

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From: sweetcakes

On Aug 18, 2009

This was really good. The texture of the cake was different than anything I've had, it's sort of a dry dense texture, but great flavor. The topping was delicious also, it was a soft crumb, it got a very light brown. I left mine in the oven for 40min, and the bottom was a perfect golden brown. This was fun to try this different unique cake, I will be using this recipe often!

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From: Arabannie

On Aug 30, 2003

FINALLY! I have made a fruit kuchen like dh's granny's! this is exactly the way his german grandma makes them. the recipe is very easy. the only change i made was adding an envelope of vanilla sugar to the struesel topping. i used prune plums, but i am sure you can use almost anything(apples,pears,peaches etc.) thank you for the recipe it is now a standard in this house!

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From: Chef #528009

On Jun 30, 2007

I just made this recipe for the first time for a German friend, and he loved it. The only thing I would add is I was curious what kind of pan to use. I think a 9" springform pan would work the best, but I ended up putting it in a 9" layer cake pan, and letting it cool for an hour before cutting around the sides with a knife, inverting it on a cardboard round, then reinverting it on the serving plate.

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