With the advent of autumn, fresh plums, tender, fragrant or hard, juicy, purple and violet, yellow and pink, round and oblong appear in the markets and in the shops. How to resist and not indulge in seven different delicacies, for example, you can bake a pie with plums.
Shortcake cake
Ingredients:
- one and a half glasses of flour
- a glass of sugar
- 200 g of butter
- bag of baking powder
- 2 eggs
- a peel of one lemon (if you do not like zest, you can not add it). Of course, you need a sink - 15 pieces, the amount of sinks depends on the size of the mold.
Preparation:
Wash the plums, drain, and in the meantime prepare the dough. The secret is the first: butter for short-pastry should stand in the heat and be soft. The second secret: the flour must be sieved twice, then the dough will turn out to be more fluffy. Secret three: Shortbread can not be kneaded for long, the less time the dough is kneaded, the better it will be.
So, mix the butter, half a cup of sugar, flour with baking powder and eggs. At the end, add the zest. Remove the dough into the refrigerator for half an hour. In the form, distribute the dough on the bottom, form a ledge 2 cm high. Cut the plums into halves and remove the bones. Put the plums on the dough and sprinkle with the remaining sugar. Bake a sand cake with plums in a preheated oven at 220-230 ° C for about half an hour.
Layered cake
The basis of the puff cake with plums is puff pastry. You can buy ready-made dough, you can cook yourself. In a puffed pie with plums, a few less juicy varieties are drained than in other pies - otherwise the bottom of the pie will look like sticky mush. In general, to ensure that the bottom of the pie does not become wet and unpleasant, it is advised to use bread crumbs or semolina. So, roll the puff pastry into a circle with a diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the mold in which the cake will be baked. Distribute the dough in the form to get the sides, knit the bottom with a fork and sprinkle with crumbs or semolina. Put the plums down on the bottom and bake the cake for about half an hour. Prepare the fill: mix half a liter of warm milk, half a cup of sugar, 2 eggs, warm up, then add the gelatin (25-30 g). When the mixture has cooled down, pour it a puff cake with plums and take it for an hour in the refrigerator.
Yeast cake
The yeast pie with plums is made from dough. For the test, take a glass of warm milk, dissolve in it 20 g of yeast, add 2 tbsp. spoon sugar and leave in a warm place for 15 minutes. When this mass increases in volume, add there also 150 g of soft oil, 3 eggs and about half a kilogram of flour. Knead soft dough, let it go. Roll out the dough and pack
Strasbourg pie with plums
The dough for this cake is kneaded very quickly: sift 200 g of flour a hill, put in it 150 g of very cold butter and 3 tbsp. spoon sugar, beat 1 egg and mix everything. Distribute the dough by shape. Wash out the plums, dry, cut on one side and remove the stone. Inside each plum pour a little sugar and cinnamon, lay the plums on the dough. For pouring, mix 250 g of cottage cheese, 200 g of sour cream, 2 egg yolks, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of starch. Separately whisk the squirrels to the spikes and gently enter them into the mixture. Pour the resulting mass of plum and bake the cake for about an hour on medium-low heat (180Cº).