Plum sheet cake
Yeast dough thickly covered with plums, streusel on top — in September it belongs on every table.
- Time
- 2 h
- Effort:
- medium
- Season
- summer, autumn
- vegetarian
- classic
- sweet
- Sunday
- batch-cook

Ingredients for 16 portions
500 gplain flour
1 cube(s)fresh yeast · half a cube
250 mlmilk
200 gbutter
180 gsugar
1eggs
1½ kgplums
1 tspcinnamon
to tastesalt
The ingredients land on the shopping list as soon as the dish is in the week.
Possible allergens
Derived from the ingredients as they are typically composed.
- Cereals containing gluten
- Eggs
- Milk (incl. lactose)
Please check allergens and intolerances yourself — on the packaging, at the bakery, at the butcher's. Recipes change, and a list like this cannot take responsibility for that.
Nutrition per portion
Estimates computed from the ingredient list — with 16 portions per recipe.
| Energy | 310 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 5.1 g |
| Fat | 11.6 g |
| Carbohydrates | 44.7 g |
| of which sugar | 19.7 g |
| Fibre | 3.4 g |
| Salt | 0 g |
Not counted because listed without a quantity: salt.
Computed with raw ingredients as bought. Cooking losses, peel, trimmings and what stays on the plate are not accounted for. Own dishes and ingredients “to taste” have no values.
Source: Max Rubner-Institut (2025), Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS) version 4.0, CC BY 4.0. The mapping of ingredients to BLS foods and the piece weights are the operator's own.
Estimates, not lab values — not a basis for medically prescribed meal plans.
Method
- 1
Dissolve the yeast in lukewarm milk with 1 tbsp sugar, knead with the flour, 80 g butter, 60 g sugar, the egg and salt into a smooth dough, prove for 1 hour.
- 2
Stone and quarter the plums (not cut all the way through).
- 3
Roll the dough out on the tray, lay the plums on closely like roof tiles.
- 4
Rub 120 g butter, 120 g sugar, 150 g flour and cinnamon into streusel, scatter over, bake at 180 °C for 35 minutes.