Plum Streusel Coffee Cake

Plum Streusel Coffee Cake

Set oven to 350F/180C.

Streusel:

• 1 cup plain flour - 125g
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar - 100g
• 6 tbs butter - 85g
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts - 60g

Mix all except the walnuts until the texture is like breadcrumbs. Stir in the walnuts, then gently squeeze in your hands so that the mixture clumps together, in a similar way to “bringing together” pastry. You ideally want to end up with pea sized lumps of streusel on the cake.

Cake:

• 1/2 cup butter - 110g
• 3/4 cup sugar - 150g
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1.25 cup plain flour - 160g
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt

Beat butter and sugar until creamy (“fluffy” and pale), then add eggs one by one, and the vanilla. Whisk the flour, salt and baking power together, then add. This is a thick batter.

• 3/4 lb plums (4-5 large)

Put batter in the pan, arrange plum halves on top, then sprinkle the streusel over.

23 cm/9" pan
1 hour

Plum Streusel Coffee Cake (another one)

Streusel:

• 3 tbs plain flour - 50g
• 3/4 cup brown sugar - 150g
• 3 tbs butter - 45g
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup walnuts - 60g

Cake:

• 3/4 cup sugar - 150g
• 1/4 cup “shortening” - 60g
• 2 cups flour - 250g
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup milk - 120ml
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 16 plums
• 1/4 cup sugar - 50g

350F, 50 mins, 9" square pan. Layer as 1/2 cake batter, 1/2 streusel, half the plum halves, rest of cake batter, then rest of streusel. Put any remaining plum halves on top.