Plum Cake with Hazelnuts and Chocolate

Many new apartment buildings were constructed in Vienna in the 1950s and 1960s. One percent of the construction costs was allocated to artwork, which was intended to beautify the simple buildings at least a little (after the war, it was necessary to build quickly). Mosaics were particularly popular. On one of them, I found a depiction of plum picking.

Some days after I took the picture of the mosaic, I discovered an interesting recipe for plum cake in a magazine. I told myself that it couldn’t be a coincidence. The recipe caught my attention because it wasn’t the traditional classic one, but also included hazelnuts and chocolate as ingredients. So I tried the recipe right away.

The cake is very tasty, so I decided to share the recipe with you:

Plum Cake with Hazelnuts and Chocolate

We need:
80 g butter
50 g dark chocolate
3 eggs
90 g sugar
180 g whipping cream (liquid)
100 g flour
8 g baking powder
100 g ground hazelnuts
a pinch of salt
1 packet vanilla sugar
ca 500 g plums (frozen plums can also be used)
Method:

Wash the plums, cut them in half and remove the stones. Melt the butter and grate the chocolate. Mix the butter, eggs, sugar, whipping cream, vanilla sugar and the hazelnuts in a bowl. Add the flour and baking powder, then stir in the chocolate. Grease a round baking pan with butter or line it with baking paper. Pour the dough into the pan and arrange the plums on top.

Bake in an oven preheated to 160°C for about 40 minutes. After cooling, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

And I even found plums in another mosaic, too!

Text: © Copyright Ingrid, Travelpotpourri
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