Plum & Pluot Buckle
Plum & Plout Buckle combines two summer stone fruits into a soft cake that goes perfectly with a scoop of ice cream. Buckles are easy to make and great if you have leftover fruit to use up.
During the summer, I often buy more fruit than we can eat before it spoils, so I’ve been trying out easy desserts to use things up. Recently, I had a few plums and plouts on hand, so I thought I’d try a fruit buckle recipe I’d seen on All Recipes. That recipe uses blueberries, but I adapted it for what I had on hand.
Ingredients
- Granulated sugar
- Shortening
- Large egg
- Milk
- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Chopped plums
- Chopped pluots
- Ground cinnamon
- Softened butter
Recipe Tips
- You don’t need to peel the fruit unless you prefer to.
- First, you make the cake butter by creaming shortening with sugar and an egg. Then, you mix the dry ingredients in a separate bowl before mixing them into the shortening mixture.
- Fold the fruit into the batter and then spread it in a cake pan.
- The cake has a sweet buttery topping, too. Just mix sugar, flour, cinnamon, and butter in a bowl. Sprinkle the topping over the cake batter in the pan.
- Bake the cake until the topping is golden brown, and a toothpick comes out clean.
This recipe is easy to follow, and I like that the sourness of the plums is offset by the sweet cake. I also love the pretty pink pieces of pluot inside the cake.
It’s great alone, but we like it served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a spoonful of whipped cream on top.
More Fruit Desserts
- No Bake Lemon Blueberry Pie
- 2 Ingredient Fruit Tart
- 4 Ingredient Strawberry Cake
- More Recipes for Leftover Fruit
Plum & Pluot Buckle
Ingredients
For the Cake
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup plums, cut into small pieces
- 1 cup pluots, cut into small pieces
For the Topping
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C). Grease one 8x8 inch pan.
- Cream together 3/4 cup sugar, shortening, and egg. In a separate bowl mix together 2 cups flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir into sugar mixture, alternating with milk. Stir in plums and pluots. Pour into greased 8x8 inch pan.
- To make topping: Combine the sugar, flour, cinnamon, and butter. Sprinkle over cake batter. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
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