This cake is all about dif­fer­ent coloured plums. You can of course make it with all pur­ple or all yel­low if you want to be bor­ing as hell. But hon­estly, if you care at all about beauty and colour and magic you will use a big jum­ble of dif­fer­ent colours.

I did just that and then went and ruined the damn thing by toss­ing some blue­ber­ries and rasp­ber­ries in with the plums and they stained the whole cake red. It still tasted incred­i­ble though, the pink flamingo asked for seconds.

Learn from my stu­pid­ity, never be non­cha­lant with a Stained Glass Cake. Follow the recipe and you will be rewarded.

Stained Glass Cake  or Plum Upside Down Cake

Ingredients

2 Tbsp butter

1 cup sugar, divided

3 Tbsp orange juice, or if you’re feel­ing wild use Triple Sec

2 each of green, yel­low and red-skinned plums, halved & pitted

3/4 cup all-purpose flouor

1 tsp bak­ing powder

1/8 tsp salt

1/2 cup milk

1 Tbsp but­ter, melted

1 tsp grated orange rind

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 large egg yolks

4 large egg whites

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Melt 2 Tbsp but­ter in a 9-inch cast-iron skil­let over medium heat. Add 1/2 cup sugar and orange juice, cook until sugar dissolves.
3. Remove from heat arrange plum halves, cut sides up in skillet.
4. Lightly spoon flour into a dry mea­sur­ing cup, level with a knife. Combine flour, bak­ing pow­der & salt in a bowl. Add milk, 1 Tbsp melted but­ter, orange zest, vanilla & yolks. Stir with a whisk until smooth.
5. Beat egg whites at high speed of mix­ture until foamy. Gradually add 1/2 cup sugar, 1 Tbsp at a time, beat­ing until stiff peaks form.
6. Gently stire 1/4th of egg white mix­ture into bat­ter, once incor­po­rated gen­tly fold in remain­ing egg white mixture.
7. Pour bat­ter over skil­let and spread evenly over plums. Bake at 350 for 45 min­utes or until a wooden skewer inserted in the cen­tre comes out clean.
8. Cool in skil­let 5 min­utes. Place a plate upside down on top of skil­let and invert cake onto plate.
9. Cue celes­tial music and serve 8 heav­enly slices to your beatific guests.