Delicious and Elegant Plum Torte Recipe

This delightful Plum Torte recipe is the perfect way to use up your excess summer plums. Plus you’ll look like a baking pro when you quickly and easily whip up this wonderfully fancy looking dessert!

Our poor plum tree is just loaded with fruit this year. The tree is not huge but it is heavily weighted down with plums. It is probably because we had a wet winter and spring. We used bag nets to cover some of the plums and expected the birds to get the rest. Usually the green parrots fly in and feast on the plums but so far we haven’t see any! I don’t know if it is the humming tape that is keeping them away!

Over the last couple of weeks we have been eating plums like they are going out of fashion! Every evening while out watering the garden we normally end up going backwards and forwards to the plum tree. Then we don’t feel like eating dinner when we go inside because we are so full of plums!

The upside of having so many plums is that we can use them in baking. Each year I make some of my favourite Plum Oat Muffins and we usually have a Summer Plum Crumble or two!

This plum season I came across another great plum recipe. The recipe for this Plum Torte is a slightly modified version of the Plum Torte recipe that I found at the New York Times cooking site.

I have to say that this recipe is a real find! It’s very easy to prepare but the result is an elegant looking and utterly delicious plum torte!

It reminds me of an old fashioned dessert; definitely something that my grandparents would have loved. This plum torte is pure comfort food; you really feel like you are getting a little bit of luxury in every bite! I love how the plums go soft but they hold their shape so they look wonderful as you cut into the torte!

The sweet yet tangy plums work well in this dessert but you could use any fruit if you didn’t have plums. I can imagine it with apricot halves or even slices of apple!

You can serve this plum torte either hot or cold and it is delicious served with ice cream or cream.

I have made this plum torte twice so far this summer so this recipe is definitely a keeper. The first time I made it in an 8 inch dish and the plums disappeared completely as the batter rose. It didn’t matter though; when you slice into it the sight of the plums inside is mouth-watering! If you use a 9 inch pan you can still just see the plums around the edges.

This is definitely my new favourite summer dessert so I look forward to making this plum torte every summer now!

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