Plum Sheet Cake – Švestkový táč
This plum cake is a soft, tender cake topped with juicy plums and a generous layer of buttery streusel. The combination of sweet, crumbly topping and juicy plums makes it a simple yet delicious classic.
Tips:
For the baking tray I recommend to use Wondra flour, which is more coarse. You can use all purpose flour too sprinkling it over small strainer. (To not have large clumps, but rather nicely covered surface.)
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Fits: 9 x 13 inches (23 cm x 33 cm) baking tray
Prep: 20 minutes
Bake: 350°F (180°C) about 35 minutes
Total: 55 minutes
Ingredients:
1 cup (140 g) all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1/2 cup (110 g) granulated sugar
3 Tbsp oil
1/2 cup (120 ml) milk
Topping
2 Tbsp unsalted butter at room temperature
3 Tbsp granulated sugar
1/3 cup (50 g) all purpose flour
1 pound (0.5 kg) Italian plums
Flour and unsalted butter at room temperature or oil for baking tray.
Directions:
- Wash 1 pound Italian plums. Cut each plum in half, but keep the plum still connected. Remove the pit. Carefully cut each half into halves, still keeping them connected. (This way you have four slices connected, which will be easier to add to the top of the cake batter inside the tray and prevent them to sink to the bottom after baking.)
- Butter up the baking tray and sprinkle Wondra flour covering the whole surface. Set aside.
- First make a topping. Into a bowl add 1/3 cup all purpose flour, 3 Tbsp granulated sugar and 2 Tbsp softened unsalted butter. With your hands crumble everything together to create crumbly topping. Set it aside.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Into a bowl add 1 cup all purpose flour and 1 1/2 tsp baking powder. Mix together and set aside.
- Into a bowl of a stand mixer add 1 egg and 1/2 cup granulated sugar. With a beater attachment mix it all together about one minute.
- Add 3 Tbsp oil and mix.
- Add mixture of flour and baking powder and 1/2 cup milk. Mix it all together until well combined.
- With a help of a spatula pour the batter into prepared baking tray. Spreading evenly. (Batter will be in very thin layer.)
- Layer on top prepared plums with skin touching the batter.
- Sprinkle the topping evenly.
- Bake in preheated oven for about 35 minutes until the top has a nice color.
I love your videos. You don’t waste time with any long bla,bla,bla introductions. You have all the ingredients measured out and you show all the necessary details. I make the same cake and use what ever fruit or berries are in season. But I double the recipe to cover a 10″ x 15″ baking pan, so that I can share the cake with my daughter’s busy family. The other minor difference is that I separate the egg yolks and whip the egg whites in a separate bowl, before folding them into the batter. I also add a bit of salt to the flour. That’s how my mother taught me to do it. By the way, my daughter used the Czech cookie cutters at Easter and she loves them. And she loves your cookbook that I bought for her as a gift for Mother’s Day. Hope you’re having a great day.
Thank you Jane, your cake sounds amazing! :) I am happy to hear your daughter enjoys my book and cutters. :) Wishing you Merry Christmas!
So happy to see a new video. Congratulations on your rental.
Thank you Paula :)
While I like plums the best, I would like to try this with other fruit like blackberries. Should I change anything with the recipe or baking? Thanks!
No need to change anything
Excellent and effortless recipe! Oh thank you!! I got a round of applause after serving this at a party with many people from different countries: Spain, Argentina, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States. Just a fabulous recipe!! You are the best!! Thank you for sharing with us! I encourage everyone to try it! On my fourth time making it, to my horror, all of my plums were spoiled! Just rotten! So I put in 500g of blueberries instead, also tasty, but the plums are of course better. Moral of the story: prepare the plums first, not when you have the batter already in the pan with the oven already hot! Thank you again Kristina!! I love these recipe from my grandfather’s homeland!
Thank you Annie, I am happy to hear it was enjoyed. :) Thank you for nice words. Made me smile. :)
This looks JUST like my Bohemian Grandmother’s coffee cake. She would make one tray with plums and one tray with peaches. As a kid I always loved it, especially fact that it was not overly sweet. Thank you for bringing back the memories, I haven’t made her coffee cake is many years.
I hope it bring wonderful memories. :)
Veľa vašich receptou dom vyskúšala a všetky sa vynikajúco podarili hlavne vďaka videám! Ja nám k Vám jednu prosbu, bolo by možné urobiť video na klasickú orechové tortu? Z detstva sa pamätám, babka mi ju často piekla. Ďakujem.
Dekuji za hezky koment. :) Vim presne jakou. Je vyborna! Do budoucna bych ji rada udelala. :)
I grew up with this as the go to, fast plum desert. I thought I had the recipe in my collected notes from my mom’s recipes, but couldn’t find it, so this was nice to find.