German plum cake

Preparation info
  • Makes around

    sixteen

    slices
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

  • About

The current chatelaines of Acland Street’s famous Monarch cake shop in Melbourne have very kindly passed on this recipe for my favourite German/Jewish plum cake, baked at the Monarch every day since it opened in the early 1930s. Serve warm from the oven as a fruit pudding or at room temperature as a cake.

Ingredients

  • 200 g (7 oz) butter
  • 160 g (5

Method

Heat oven to 180°C (350°F). Butter and paper a baking tray or pie dish measuring 30 cm by 20 cm (12 in by <