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  How to Make: German Spiced Plum Coffee Cake (No Yeast)

  September 1, 2026September 2, 2026

  This German spiced plum coffee cake is a square, sliceable cake inspired by the plum cakes that fill German markets every autumn, built on a soft cinnamon butter batter and layered with thin slivers of fresh Italian plums, a generous spread of spiced Glühwein plum jam, and a buttery cinnamon brown sugar topping that sits somewhere between a streusel and a soft cookie crumb.

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  How To Make: Simple Plum Cake

  September 1, 2026September 1, 2026

  This simple plum cake is a buttery, cinnamon-scented butter cake baked with fresh Italian plums, left in halves so they settle down into the crumb as the cake rises around them. The batter started as the base for our Austrian apricot cake, built to be fluffy and moist while still holding its shape against fruit.

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  Mulled Wine Thumbprint Cookies with Plum Jam

  August 26, 2026August 26, 2026

  Buttery cinnamon sugar cookies with a well of mulled wine spiced plum jam baked right into the middle. We fill ours before they go in the oven, not after, which is the whole trick to a well that holds its shape. Think Glühwein at a Christmas market, in cookie form.

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  How To Make Mulled Wine Spiced Plum Jam

  August 25, 2026August 25, 2026

  Small batch mulled wine spiced plum jam made with 12 plums, a splash of cheap red and a whole star anise. No pectin, no canner, ready in about 30 minutes. It tastes exactly like the bottom of a really good mug of Glühwein, and one batch fills a jar with enough left for cookies and cake.