Vanilla Plum Cake

I am so lucky that I get beautiful fresh ingredients given to me direct from the vegie patch or orchard at Fish Creek!  Mum and Dad's plum tree is absoultely choccers this year and I got a big bag full of beautiful blood plums last week.

I knew that I would stew some of them, I love stewed fruit with my cereal in the morning and the kids love them with ice-cream for dessert.  I went straight to Annabel's book to get a recipe to blog and found this Vanilla Plum Cake, very easy and very delicious!

The cake only needed the plums for the top so I guess I really only used about 10 plums and stewed the rest.  Annabel suggests you can use any fruit, apricots or peaches would be nice too.  The inclusion of the buttermilk makes the cake so moist and with the vanilla and the zest of a lemon - so yummy!
The cooked cake would also make a really nice dessert with a dollop of cream or scoop of vanilla ice-cream.  I cooked the cake in a large baking dish, cut half to eat now and froze the rest to use in lunchboxes ready for the first week back to school!