Recipes | Brown Butter Blue Plum Skillet Cake
Brown Butter Blue Plum Skillet Cake
This recipe comes to us from our friends at Ontario Tender Fruit! Fluffy and light, fresh in-season Ontario blue plums add a bright tangy flavour that makes this dish a delicious after-dinner treat, or even an indulgent breakfast treat with coffee.
Ingredients
Servings
- 5 Tbsp. Unsalted Butter
- 2/3 Cup Buttermilk
- 2 Large Eggs, Room Temperature
- 1 1/2 Cup All-Purpose Flour
- 3/4 Cup Packed Dark Brown Sugar
- Pinch Cinnamon
- Pinch Cardamom (Optional)
- 4 Small, Ripe Ontario Blue Plums, Seeds Discarded and Thinly Sliced Into Wedges
- 2 Tsp. Coarse Sugar Like Turbinado (Or Granulated Sugar As A Substitute)
Instructions
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 F and place oven rack in the middle.Step 2
Melt 4 tbsp of butter in a hot skillet over medium heat and continue to cook, swirling occasionally, until it starts to foam. Remove the pan from the heat and continue to swirl as the butter finished browning (5-7 minutes), it should smell nutty but not burnt.Step 3
Whisk in the buttermilk, eggs and vanilla extract. Pour the buttermilk/brown butter mixture into the dry ingredients and stir only until batter is smooth. Don’t overmix.Step 4
Grease skillet with remaining 1 tbsp butter and pour batter in. Top with sliced plums and bake until golden around the edges or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 25-30 minutes.
