A listener rang after the show asking me to include the recipe for a German Plum cake that Peter Cundall and I spoke about at length on air, so here it is. I've made it many times with great success.

Should this traditional dessert have a dough or pastry base - and which variety of fruit works best? For a place with such lovely plums (complaints to the editor, please), we have a serious dearth of ...

If central Europe had a counterpart to the phrase, "as American as apple pie," it would have to be "as German (or Swiss, or Austrian) as pflaumenkuchen." Pflaumenkuchen (plum cake) is the most common ...

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Finish this crumbly plum cake with a shower of icing sugar. Photo / Babiche Martens If you’ve found yourself with too many plums at peak season, turn to this easy plum cake recipe. You can eat this ...

Beat together butter, sugar and eggs. Add rest of ingredients and stir. Place this batter mixture in swiss roll tin, greased and lined. Arrange the plum halves in a neat way forming rows. Overlapping ...