Still have apples

I still had plenty of apples, so the next recipe I decided to make was one from the newspaper, and I decided to alter it as much as I wanted…and yes, I knew that was a bad idea, but oh well. I not only wanted to use up apples, but the plums I had, and some of the blueberries. Oh, I was going to make the best cake.

I cut up two cups worth of apples, and dropped them in the food processor, along with some blueberries that had started to change color,and the plums that were going soft. It made a dirty purple color that looked a bit like cement, but I figured it would taste good, at some point.

Cement Apple Cake

I used one cup of raw sugar, 2 eggs, some bananas that had started to go bad, one cube of melted butter, 1 cup of coconut flour and 1/2 cup of gluten-free, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon of salt.

Finished cake

It looked dreadful going in, so I cut up another banana and another apple, and put it on top, thinking it would make it better. The recipe called to cook it at 350 for half an hour.

It was not done in half an hour. It was not done in an hour. It was still soggy and horrid, and after an hour of cooking, it came out looking like this. So I let it cool, and didn’t even bother to put it in the compost, just dumped it in the trash.

Failure in the kitchen number 2.

Fresh Plumbs

Well, what do you do with plums, other than eat them? One thing, not to do, is to leave them on the counter until they go moldy, which is what happened to the first batch I got from my CSA. So, I was bound and determined not to let that happen again.

I almost took the plums that had gone soft and hadn’t gotten moldy, and tried to make plum jam, but I didn’t have pectin, and I didn’t have the time, so decided to just cook the plums that hadn’t gone bad.

So, I read all my cook books, but could find nothing that I wanted to make with plums, so I asked my friend, Chris, to send me what she had. She found one called Swiss Plum Cake, along with a bunch of other ones, that sounded closest to what I wanted to do with the plums, and didn’t call for me to make them into plum jam, which seemed like a waste.

Plums in the batter

It seemed like an easy thing to make. It called for 1 egg, I used three, because I was going to make it with non-wheat flour. I took the three eggs, mixed with 2 tablespoons of honey and 2 tablespoons of my home made yogurt and mixed them together

Then I took 1 cup of King Arther Gluten free flour and 1/2 cup of coconut flour, and mixed them in with one teaspoon of baking soda and a pinch of sea salt. Then I added 6 tablespoons of melted butter, and cut up the plums. The recipe called for 2 pounds, but I just put all the plums I had into the batter, after I poured it into the pan. The last touch was to drizzle honey on top.

Finished cake

I baked it at 375F for 45 minutes.

I wasn’t sure what it was supposed to look like, and I wasn’t sure what it was supposed to taste like, but it tasted fine, a little tart and not too sweet, which I liked.

My sweetie ate it nearly all up and called it a “keeper” so, that is a good sign. If I get more plums, I’ll make it again. That is the problem, however, with making things with fruit in season, that when the season is gone, so is the dish, until next year.