Best Cranberry Plum Coffee Cake Recipe Ever
This is a super easy coffee cake recipe and friends you are going to LOVE how moist this Cranberry Plum Coffee Cake is!! With a sweet plum filling, and cranberries sprinkled throughout the batter, it’s a fun dessert that you’ll want to add as a keeper to your recipe box.
This recipe is one of my 16 Super Easy to Make Christmas Holiday Recipes. All of these recipes are very easy and oh so yummy!
Best Cranberry Plum Coffee Cake Ever
Honestly, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love a yummy ripe Plum. What I’m often surprised by is the lack of press that dried plums get for its easy swapping ability in recipes!
Plum Facts:
- Dried Plums can be pureed and added to recipes, instead of oils and butters.
- Dried Plums can also be used as a sauce over meats to add moisture and heighten flavor!
- Dried Plums help promote satiety…meaning they keep you fuller longer.
Be sure to check out the full recipe and ingredient list below
So with those yummy facts in mind, let’s move on to the recipe! There are three parts to this moist coffee cake recipe:
Ingredients:
Filling:
1 1/2 cups (about 9 ounces) pitted dried plums
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2/3 cup chopped walnuts
Batter:
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 1/4 cups sugar
3 large eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 cups fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries, thawed
1/2 cup (3 ounces) chopped pitted dried plums
Topping:
1/3 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Directions:
Heat oven to 325ºF. Lightly coat 9 x 3-inch springform pan (or you can use a cake pan) with cooking spray; set aside.
For the Filling:
In a food processor or blender, process dried plums, water and cinnamon until almost smooth, pulsing on and off and scraping sides of container as needed.
After you are done blending, Stir in walnuts and set aside.
For the Batter:
In mixer bowl, beat together butter and sugar until creamy with a mixer. Beat in eggs, sour cream and vanilla until well mixed.
In a separate bowl, combine flour and baking powder; stir in cranberries and dried plums by hand. Tossing to coat.
Add butter mixture to dry ingredients, mixing just until dry ingredients are incorporated/wet (don’t over stir).
Spread half of Batter in pan.
Cover evenly with Plum Filling.
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Spread your remaining Batter over the Filling.
Quick tip: Spray your spatula with cooking spray or put some butter on it for easy spreading.
Topping:
In small bowl, combine walnuts, sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle evenly over top of cake.
Bake in center of oven 1 hour, 40 minutes to 1 hour, 50 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Remove sides of pan if you are using a Springform Pan. Cut into wedges and serve warm or at room temperature.
This is absolutely the Best Cranberry Plum Coffee Cake Ever… deeelish and oooh so pretty!
Enjoy Friends!!
Best Cranberry Plum Coffee Cake
Equipment
- 9 x 3-inch springform pan
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 Cups Pitted dried plums (about 9 ounces)
- 1 1/2 Cups Water
- 1 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon part for topping
- 1 Cup chopped walnuts part for filling part for topping
- 3/4 Cup butter, softened
- 1 1/2 Cup white sugar part for topping
- 3 large eggs
- 1 Cup sour cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 Cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/2 Cups fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries, thawed
- 1/2 Cup chopped pitted dried plums (3 ounces)
Instructions
- Heat oven to 325ºF. Lightly coat 9 x 3-inch springform pan with cooking spray; set aside.
- Filling: In food processor or blender, process dried plums, water and cinnamon until almost smooth, pulsing on and off and scraping sides of container as needed.
- Stir in walnuts; set aside.
- Batter: In mixer bowl, beat together butter and sugar until creamy. Beat in eggs, sour cream and vanilla until well mixed.
- In separate bowl, combine flour and baking powder; stir in cranberries and dried plums. Tossing to coat.
- Add to butter mixture to dry ingredients, mixing just until dry ingredients are incorporated/wet (don’t over stir).
- Spread half of Batter in pan.
- Cover evenly with Plum Filling.
- Spread remaining Batter over Filling.Quick tip: Spray your spatula with cooking spray or put some butter on it for easy spreading
- Topping: In small bowl, combine walnuts, sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle evenly over top of cake.
- Bake in center of oven 1 hour, 40 minutes to 1 hour, 50 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool on wire rack 30 minutes. Remove side of pan. Cut into wedges and serve warm or at room temperature.
