This post may contain affiliate links.Please read our disclosure policy.If you have the last few pieces of summer fruit ripening in your produce bowl, I have the best easy single layer cake recipe for you.

This Plum Cake has a streusel made with ginger, cornmeal, and brown sugar to make a light, crisp topping.You’re going to want to save this recipe! Did you know that when plums hit the oven, they melt into pools of hot plum jam? Gooey little bites of concentrated sweet-tart flavor, and, depending on the plum, these bites can be magenta, red, or yellow! I always bake with Santa Rosa plums, known for their intensely ruby interiors to make this plum cake.(If you’re not sure about the color of the inside of your plum, ask the vendor at the farmer’s market stall).

This cake is a soft, cottony vanilla cake with pools of melted plum, and a crisp crust on top.Plus, it’s made in an 8-inch pan because I love a good single layer snack cake! I brought this little plum cake to a Christmas in July potluck party, and let’s just say it was feeling quite at home next to a homemade apple pie and Jollibee takeout that my friends brought.Technically, this cake is a buckle! A buckle is a streusel-topped cake that contains fresh fruit.

(they’re called buckles because the fruit pieces and streusel ‘buckle’ or crumble into the cake as it bakes).Ingredients Brown Sugar.For the streusel topping on this plum cake, you need 6 tablespoons of brown sugar.

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