Plum cake with a crunchy streusel top

Ingredients

• For the dough:
• eggs – 2 pcs
• sugar – 200 g
• vanilla sugar – 10 g
• melted butter – 100 g
• kefir – 200 ml
• plain flour – 320 g
• baking powder – 2 tsp
• salt – a pinch
• Filling:
• plums – 800 g
• cornflour – 1 tbsp
• Streusel:
• plain flour – 100 g
• sugar – 70 g
• butter – 80 g

Method

1. Step 1

   Start with the batter. Whisk the eggs with the sugar and vanilla sugar for 5–7 minutes, until thick and pale. Beat in the melted butter.

   
2. Step 2

   Pour in the kefir and mix briefly with the mixer.

   
3. Step 3

   Stir the baking powder into the flour and fold it into the wet mix, with the mixer if you like.

   
4. Step 4

   When everything is combined, pour the batter into a tin lined with baking parchment.

   
5. Step 5

   Stone the plums and set them on the batter, skin-side down. Dust with starch.

   
6. Step 6

   Scatter the streusel over the top. Rub flour, sugar, vanilla sugar and cold butter to crumbs — a blender is handy, or grate well-chilled butter.

   
7. Step 7

   Bake at 190–200°C for about 60 minutes. A wooden skewer should come out dry.

   
8. Step 8

   Sprinkle the top with streusel. For it, mix flour, sugar, vanilla sugar and cold butter. It’s convenient to mix everything into crumbs in a blender, but you can knead it with your hands. The butter can be frozen a little and grated on a coarse grater.

   
9. Step 9

   Place in the oven to bake at 190-200°C for about 60 minutes. We check the readiness of the pie with a wooden skewer - it should remain dry.