Plum Streusel Coffeecake

I usually save my plums for making Martha's Plum Raspberry Upside-down cake, but they have been cheapish at Aldi the last couple weeks, so I bought some more for this recipe.


For Streusel
1 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. firmly packed light brown sugar
1/2 c. walnuts
3/4 stick (6 tbsp.) unslated butter, cut into pieces and softened
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg


For Cake Batter
1 stick (1/2 cup) unslated butter, softened
3/4 c. granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/4 c. all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 lb. plums (4 to 5 medium), sliced


Preaheat oven to 350 degrees F. and butter and flour a 9-inch round or square baking pan at least 2 inches deep.

Make Streusel: In a food processor pulse together flour, brown sugar, walnuts, butter, cinnamon and nutmeg until combined well and crumbly.

Make cake batter: In a bowl with an electric mixer beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy and add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, and vanilla. Sift flour with baking powder and salt and beat until just combined.

Spread cake batter in pan, smoothing top, and arrange plum slices over it in slightly overlapping concentric circles. Sprinkle streusel over plum slices and bake cake in middle of an oven 1 hour, or until a taser comes out clean Coffeecake, can be made 1 week ahead: Cool cake completely in pan on rack and freeze, wrapped well in plastic wrap and foil. Reheat cake, unwrapped but not thawed, in a preheated 350 degree F. oven until heated through, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool cake slightly on a rack and sift confectioner's sugar over it, if desired. Serve coffeecake warm or at room temperature.


It was good. Baby Chubb keeps reaching for the pan whenever she sees it. Little Chubb ate about half his piece, but probably would eat more of it now since it is now room temperature.

My only problem with it was that it takes so long to cook. I am not a fan of waiting SO LONG for food in the morning. I probably should have just made it the night before and reheated it up for us in the morning. The streusel was still pretty dry and crumbly, but works okay on top kind of soaking up some the the plum juice that cooks out. And, I would probably just put the plums on top, since you can't see the plums at all once the streusel is put on.