![A slice of plum almond cake on a brown ceramic plate.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/8-plum-recipes.jpg)
![A cast-iron skillet plum cake with slices of fanned out plums baked in](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/skillet-plum-cake-1200x1765.jpg)
Skillet Plum Cake
![An oval dish filled with roasted plums, topped with star anise.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/roasted-plums-2.jpg)
Roasted Plums
Plums are completely underappreciated, especially when roasted. Not only are they delicious, they will make your house smell AMAZING while being roasted. Also, the gorgeous color beats any food coloring. I love this.
Jeanette
![A baked plum crumble pie with a serving cut from it and a knife on the table beside it.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/plum-crumble-pie.jpg)
Plum Crumble Pie
![A frozen tub of plum sorbet, with a scoop of sorbet and some sugar cookies lying beside it.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/plum-sorbet.jpg)
Roasted Plum Sorbet
![A purple plum torte with dripping juice on a baking pan, all on a cooling wrap.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/plum-torte.jpg)
Plum Torte
![A slice of plum almond cake on a brown ceramic plate.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/plum-almond-cake.jpg)
Plum Almond Cake
This is the best cake ever. I have taken it to so many dinner parties and it’s always a hit. Super yummy with fresh plums but have used tinned plums when fresh not in season and it’s still delicious.
Suzanne
![Stone fruit slump in a pottery bowl with a red napkin.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/stone-fruit-slump.jpg)
Stone Fruit Slump
![An assortment of pickled stone fruits in jars stacked on top of each other.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/how-to-preserve-stone-fruit-1.jpg)
How to Preserve Stone Fruits
Plum Recipe FAQs
Ripe plums will have a sweet fragrant smell and will give slightly when gently squeezed. Look for fruit that has smooth, blemish-free skin. Hard fruit will continue to ripen after picking, but avoid very soft and squishy fruit.
Italian plums, also referred to as Italian prune plums are much smaller and darker than plums grown in the US. They have an oblong egg shape and are about the size of a large strawberry.
If your plums are still a little firm and unripe when you bring them home, store them at room temperature until they smell fragrant and have softened slightly. Once your plums are ripe, store them in the refrigerator inside an open plastic bag or an old egg carton.
Surely you’ve noticed some kinda kooky names attached to the plethora of plum-like creatures proliferating in produce aisles in recent years. Pluot. Plumcot. Aprium. Each of them are slightly different yet still largely the same in terms of being a cross of plums and apricots.
In contrast to the rather tart tang of old-fashioned plum varieties, these new-fangled stone fruits have a sweet-tart flavor. They’re all good in our book. Just slightly different from one another.
Every single recipe sounds wonderful!!
Can’t wait to get to them but am starting with the very first cast iron skillet cake.
I let you know.
Great, Leslie. We can’t wait to hear how they turn out and which one you like best.