Unsalted butter - Using unsalted butter allows you to control the total quantity of salt in the recipe.Salt, cinnamon and cardamom - Salt and cinnamon are traditional, and cardamom provides a nice warming, floral element that pairs well with the plums.
All purpose flour - Flour binds the streusel together.Brown sugar - Brown sugar adds a nice caramel flavor.If you choose to use salted butter, omit the additional salt. I like to use unsalted butter to ensure that I can control the total amount of salt in my recipe. Unsalted butter - Melted butter makes it so easy to put this streusel topping recipe together.RECIPE NOTES, INGREDIENTS AND SUBSTITUTIONS FOR THE STREUSEL I minimally altered this streusel recipe from What's Gaby Cooking, reducing the salt and adding cardamom to echo the spices in the cake. The spices also provide an extra layer of flavor to the classic cinnamon coffee cake. I added cardamom and black pepper to enhance the floral nature of the plums. And for something to help me use up the plums overflowing the bowl on my counter.Ī simple plum cake recipe seemed fitting, so I put together this coffee cake. It was already getting colder outside, and I was looking for something satisfyingly cozy that would warm my kitchen with the smell of spices. My parents gave me a glut of Italian prune plums from the tree in their yard. I first worked on this recipe for plum cake with streusel last fall.
It bakes up into a delicious cake that can be served just as easily for breakfast as at coffee or tea! PLUM COFFEE CAKE WITH STREUSEL TOPPING This plum cake boasts a full pound of diced plums strewn over the top of the batter before being blanketed with the streusel topping. Sour cream helps provide a tender, moist crumb to the cake, and an easy streusel recipe gets double duty as both filling and topping for extra crunch and brown sugar flavor. This streusel packed plum coffee cake recipe combines juicy plums with the warming spices of cinnamon, cardamom and black pepper.