Yeast Plum Cake with Cinnamon Crumble

A juicy yeast cake with sweet-tart plums under crisp cinnamon crumble. It tastes great warm or cold with coffee.

By yumbelo · 8 servings · 150 minutes

Ingredients

• 500 g all-purpose flour
• 250 ml milk
• 1 pack dry yeast
• 80 g sugar
• 1 pc egg
• 80 g soft butter
• 1 pinch salt
• 800 g plums
• 150 g all-purpose flour for the crumble
• 100 g cold butter for the crumble
• 80 g brown sugar for the crumble
• 1 tsp cinnamon

Method

1. Warm the milk until lukewarm, stir part of it together with a pinch of sugar and the dry yeast, and let it stand for 5 minutes.
2. Mix 500 g flour with the remaining sugar and the salt in a large bowl, add the egg, soft butter and the yeast milk, and knead everything into a smooth dough.
3. Cover the dough and let it rise in a warm place for about 60 minutes, until it has noticeably increased in size.
4. Wash the plums, halve them and remove the pits.
5. For the crumble, rub 150 g flour, 100 g cold butter in pieces, 80 g brown sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon together with your fingers to form coarse crumbs.
6. Roll out the yeast dough on a greased baking sheet or press it into a springform pan, then arrange the plums cut side up, densely, on top.
7. Sprinkle the crumble evenly over the plums and let the cake rise for another 30 minutes.
8. Preheat the oven to 180 °C conventional heat and bake the cake for about 35 to 40 minutes, until golden brown.
9. Take the cake out of the oven, let it cool briefly, and serve it lukewarm or fully cooled.