Turmeric Cake

Soft turmeric cake with plums and lots of other spices. A delicious tea cake bound to make you happy! You can also make it with golden milk paste.

Brightly yellow turmeric cake with plums, a super moist and flavorful dessert perfect for tea time!

If you like spicy cakes this one is made for you. Turmeric, cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper, and ginger – all in one cake! Alternatively, you can make it with turmeric paste for golden milk, either my recipe or the paste you might have already.

And if you are looking for more sweet turmeric recipes, you might also want to try the Healthy Banana Split or the Muesli with Yogurt.

Ingredients for turmeric tea cake

Regular ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt, eggs, unsalted butter, sugar, milk, vanilla extract.

Plums:

• The small Italian plums are best for this recipe.
• They have a suitable size, and they will hold their shape better than regular sliced plums.

Spices:

• You have two options: you can either use a spice mixture including turmeric, cinnamon, black pepper, ginger, and nutmeg or you can replace that with golden paste.

How to make turmeric cake?

Important tip!

Use a round cake pan but NOT a springform! If you use a springform the running juices of the plums will make a mess in your oven.

• Butter a cake dish of about 26 cm/10-inch diameter.
• Halve the plums and arrange them nicely in the dish, cut side up. Try to cover as much space as possible, even if the plums overlap here and there.
• Mix together the flour, salt, baking powder, and spices in a bowl.
• Heat the milk in a small saucepan (and whisk in the turmeric paste, if using that instead of the spices).
• Melt the butter in a small pan.
• In another bowl whisk the eggs, sugar, and vanilla extract until pale and fluffy. Add the milk and incorporate.
• Sieve the flour mixture over the egg mixture and fold in carefully. Fold in the melted and slightly cooled butter as well. Pour the batter over the plums and bake for about 30 minutes or until the cake is set in the middle.
• Let rest in the pan for about 20 minutes then turn onto a platter.

More spicy cakes:

• Pumpkin Fruitcake
• No-Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake
• Non-Alcoholic Christmas Fruitcake
• Nigella’s Carrot Cupcakes
• Apple Toffee Cake