It’s easy to overlook plums at the grocery store or farmers market. Nestled between peaches, nectarines, and berries, they often don’t get the love they deserve. But once you start cooking with them, you’ll realize how incredibly versatile and flavorful they really are.
Plums bring a perfect balance of sweet and tart to both sweet and savory dishes, and they come in a rainbow of varieties that can totally transform a recipe depending on how you use them.
If you’ve only ever eaten plums raw or in store-bought jam, you’re missing out.
These 15 recipes will show you just how much this humble fruit can do.
So don’t let those plums go to waste or keep them stuck in the snack bowl. These creative recipes will help you see plums in a whole new way and maybe even make you fall in love with them all over again.
Trust us, once you start cooking with plums, you’ll be wondering why it took you so long to give them a proper spotlight.
Plum Cake
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This Plum Cake is a simple fruit dessert recipe! It’s a homemade cake flavored with stone fruit and almonds.
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Plum and Apple Crumble
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This Plum and Apple Crumble recipe is the perfect dessert for summer. It’s easy to make and topped with the most delicious butter streusel! Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, custard, or whipped cream and enjoy!
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Spiced Plum Overnight Oats
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Spiced plum overnight oats are a healthy breakfast option featuring a delicious spiced plum sauce on top. No need to worry about time, though, you can whip up the sauce quickly in a microwave.
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Simple Plum Cake (Plum Torte)
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This simple plum cake (plum torte) is one of the all-time popular recipes from the NY Times. The cake is made with Italian prune plums, but you can replace them with a different kind of plum. It’s simple, easy, and so good with a cup of tea or vanilla ice cream.
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Swedish Plum Toscakaka (Tosca Cake)
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This plum toscakaka is a delicious twist on a Swedish classic. The tart plums pair beautifully with the soft sponge and caramelised almond topping, creating a dessert that feels both familiar and a little different.
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Romanian Plum Dumplings Recipe – Galuste Cu Prune
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These Romanian plum dumplings are a delightful way to savor the season’s plums. The combination of soft, fluffy dough and warm fruit filling is sure to delight.
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Spiced Grilled Plums
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These tender spiced grilled plums highlight sweet summer stone fruit in the best possible way. For this easy dessert, ready in just 20 minutes, quartered plums are gently cooked in sweet, spiced orange butter in a foil packet on the grill or over your campfire.
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German Plum Cake
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This German Plum Cake is also known as Pflaumenkuchen or Zwetschgenkuchen. It’s a sheet pan cake made with sliced plums over a sweet yeast dough base.
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Sugar Plums
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These traditional Sugar Plums are holiday treats made from dried fruits and nuts, rolled in coarse sugar. These are such a fun and easy treat that are not only for the Holidays.
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Plum Butter Cake
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This Plum Butter Cake is the perfect not-too-sweet dessert that has juicy plums baked inside a delicious cake with a crisp cinnamon and sugar crust. It has a crispy, crunchy outside and a soft, dense inside.
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Apple Cider Bourbon Cocktail with Plums & Thyme
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This is the perfect cocktail, combining bourbon with local apple cider and fresh ingredients like plums and thyme.
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Easy Plum Flan
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This simple, fragrant, and creamy plum flan recipe is an easy, luscious plum tart that takes just minutes to make. The creamy, custard-like base bakes up thick and soft around fresh, juicy plums. It’s delicious on its own, or top it with whipped cream for a little extra.
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Spiced Plum Curd
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This Spiced Plum Curd is creamy with butter and eggs, lovely and fruity from the seasonal plums, with a gentle hit of cinnamon and star anise, reminiscent of German Plum Jam.
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Plum Jam with Cinnamon
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This homemade canned plum jam with cinnamon is made without any added pectin. You can store the plum jam for the whole year or even more and use it for breakfast, desserts, pancakes, and baked goods.
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Easy Plum Crumble with Almond Topping
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This easy plum crumble with almond topping is a simple, rustic dessert that’s perfect anytime. With its sweet-tart, cinnamon-spiced plums and buttery almond crumble, it’s the kind of humble dessert that everyone loves.
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