12 Plum Recipes

An oval dish filled with roasted plums, topped with star anise.

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Scented with star anise, not overly sweet, and just 25 minutes from start to finish. Talk about our sorta summer dessert.

A plum kuchen on a sheet of parchment with three slices cut from it and a collection of forks, a spoon, and two coffee cups nearby.

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Breakfast. Brunch. Onesies. Dessert. Midnight nosh. Heck, there's no time of day or night that we don't welcome this classic plum kuchen.

A cast-iron skillet plum cake with slices of fanned out plums baked in

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Skillet cake is moist and tender and sweet (not too sweet, though) and sorta like upside-down cake except it's right-side up.

A slice of plum almond cake on a brown ceramic plate.

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Haute yet homey, this rustic Italian cake with its delicate crumb and pockets of jammy plum awesomeness will cause you to anticipate plum season like never, ever before.

A purple plum torte with dripping juice on a baking pan, all on a cooling wrap

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One taste and you'll understand why this is the most popular recipe from The New York Times. A new American classic.

A couple slices of plum-blueberry upside-down cake on a white plate with a knife resting on the edge of the plate.

Plum-Blueberry Upside-Down Cake6/12

This purple-stained cake—er, what's left of it—calls for just old-fashioned goodness and the season's most compelling fruits. Got milk?

A white bowl of wine-soaked autumn pudding with wine dripping down the side topped with a white plate and a bottle of whiskey.

Wine-Soaked Autumn Pudding7/12

An autumnal take on classic summer pudding that melds booze and berries and apples and plums to really quite lovely effect.

A baked plum crumble pie with a serving cut from it and a knife on the table beside it.

It's a pie! It's a tart! It's a crumble! This crumble pie with a pastry crust, a boozy and oozy plum filling, and a buttery, crunchy crumble topping is a mutant combo in the best possible way. Perfect for late-season stone fruits.

A frozen tub of plum sorbet, with a scoop of sorbet and some sugar cookies lying beside it.

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This plum sorbet is going to change your late-summer fruit strategy. And you don't even need an ice cream maker. Now that's easy and elegant.

A round polenta plum cake on a wooden table with one slice cut from it.

Polenta Plum Cake10/12

A cake that's as rife with uber-ripe plums as it is Italian heritage. You're gonna love the gritty-in-a-good-way texture and buttery taste.

An assortment of pickled stone fruits in jars stacked on top of each other.

How to Preserve Stone Fruits11/12

An innovative and enticing way to preserve summer's most ephemeral luxury for indulging all year long.

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Equal parts bohemian and tradition, this stone fruit slump marries the best aspects of cobbler and cake to sweet, sweet effect.