Fall is unmercifully coming and one good thing about it is fall fruits, plums, apples and pears. Now I have only plums ripe, I will have to wait a few more days for apples and pears. As usually, every second year plum harvest isn´t the best and this is that year, so no caldron cooking of plum jam. But I found few plums (few plums, more than half a kilo :D) so I made plum cream cheese crumble bars. It is not true crumble, since it doesn´t crumble that much and you don´t have to eat it with a spoon. I was in mood for cream cheese filling and since bottom crumble part would have fallen apart with cream cheese on it, I replaced it with kneaded dough with a pinch of cinnamon. Plums and cinnamon are just the right combination…actually cinnamon and any fall fruit. After plums, there is already mentioned crumble. It is soo delicious and crispy thanks to crushed almond slices.
- Dough:
- 250 g all-purpose flour
- 125 g butter
- 75 g icing sugar
- 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
- 1 egg
- A pinch of salt
- 30 ml cold water
- Filling:
- 1000 g cream cheese
- 600 g sour cream
- 220 g icing sugar
- 3 eggs
- 700 g pitted halved plums
- Crumble:
- 150 g cane sugar
- 90 g all purpose flour
- 50 g crushed almond slices
- 1/3 tsp cinnamon
- 70 g cold butter
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Mix and combine flour with butter, icing sugar, cinnamon, egg, water and salt. Process it using hands or mixer.
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Put the dough in a refrigerator for an hour.
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Take the dough out, roll it out on a floured work surface and put it in baking pan covered with baking paper. Put filling on dough.
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Filling: Mix together cream cheese, sour cream, icing sugar and eggs. Stir well and pour filling on dough. Put halved plums on filling. Sprinkle plums with crumble.
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Crumble:
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Combine cane sugar with flour, almond slices, cinnamon and butter cut into cubes. Process ingredients by hands so they are combined but they still crumble. Sprinkle crumble over plums.
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Put dessert into oven and bake for 60 minutes on 180 degrees. Let it cool after taking out of oven.
baking pan - 36,5 x 29 cm
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