Plum recipes
Try out some of our tangy plum dessert recipes including one of our sponge cakes (there’s one with custard too), a crumble or jam. Or give them a try in a savoury dish such as duck with spiced plums.
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Chutney recipes
Plum and ginger chutney
Plums (or greengages), Bramley apples and fresh ginger are slowly cooked with aromatic spices in...

Teatime traybake recipes
Lighter plum and almond traybake
For a healthy cake recipe, try this moist and fruity almond and plum cake: it...

Crumble recipes
Nutty plum and sloe gin crumble
Plums are delicious, but cooked plums are a whole different ball game. The slight tartness...

Plum recipes
Honey & Co’s chicken, plum and sweet spice...
Chicken thighs are marinated in warming spices, demerara sugar and a fresh plum purée, before...

Mini dessert recipes
Mini plum & sauternes pies
These gorgeous mini pies are made with plums and sauternes to create a warming sweetness....

Plum membrillo with cinnamon and sage
What is membrillo? It’s a bit like a very set and firm sweet jelly to...

Picnic recipes
Plum fruit leather
Olia Hercule’s recipe for fruit leather, also known as tklapi in the Caucaus region, is...

Plum recipes
Sticky plum and custard cake
Don’t know what to do with all those plums? This sticky cake recipe uses a...

Burns Night recipes
Honey parfait with mulled red wine plums
These delicately flavoured frozen parfait desserts manage to be classy, romantic and delicious.

Plum recipes
Roast chicken legs and plums
Got a glut of plums? Lucky you! The plums in this roast chicken recipe give...

September seasonal recipes
Duck with spiced plums
This is a hearty, fruity yet amazingly low-cal Chinese-inspired duck recipe that makes use of...

Teatime traybake recipes
Plum and almond sponge cake
A gloriously moist cake, this plum, marzipan and almond sponge can be drizzled with icing...

Jam recipes
Victoria plum preserve
When plums are barely ripe, they’re high in pectin and natural acid so you don’t...

Plum recipes
Plum Baba
Plum baba. See what we did there? These brioche-type babas, similar to their rum baba...

Crumble recipes
Rachel Allen’s plum and apple crumble
Chef Rachel Allen says: “Everybody loves crumble and adding oat flakes to the topping gives...

15-minute meal recipes
Cheat’s plum duck noodles
Enjoy the flavours of Peking duck in this 15-minute noodle recipe by buying a cooked...

Dinner inspiration in 20 minutes
French mild goat’s cheese with plums in lavender...
French mild goat’s cheese with plums in lavender syrup and toasted brioche is simplicity itself...

Plum recipes
Spiced plum chutney
Got a LOT of plums? This recipe needs 1.5kg, so it’s a great way to...

Plum recipes
Plums roasted with sloe gin
This dessert recipe for plums, roasted in sloe gin, is perfect for entertaining. Want to...

Plum dumplings with quark
These plum dumplings, also known as zwetschgenknödel, are a sweet taste of Germany.