A couple of weeks ago our Plum tree was going CRAZY with ripe plums and I was desperate to find as many recipes as I could to use them up.  I sent out a call for help (AKA – “Tweeted”!) for Plum recipes.  To my pleasure a wonderful new friend, who I had recently met at the Thermador event in Arizona (yep, that’s a post I still need to write…), Maria from Two Peas and their Pod sent me a link to one of her scrumptious recipes. Plum Nectarine Buttermilk Cake.  If you have not checked out her site, you need to.  She shares fabulous recipes, and well…she is just so genuinely nice!  You kind of feel like she is your friend next door.

(Plus, I’m not the only one that adores her…check out the Raspberry Lemon Bars, WOW, yum!)

I didn’t have nectarines, but I did have a big box of beautiful peaches (that I had just used to make an easy little grilled dessert).  So I substitued.  I also love to use a tart pan with tall sides. It just makes cakes look pretty, and it’s nice to lift the cake out rather than worry about the whole flipping-it-out-thing….but a regular 9″ round pan is perfectly fine!  You can’t always get away with using a tart pan, but I usually try to!

Seriously, check out that fruit!?!?  YUM!

The house smells divine. I NEED to take a bite of this cake!!  My Vanilla ice cream is waiting more patiently than me….

Oh Maria, you have not failed us on this one!  Thanks for sharing the recipe! So beautiful and it tastes Heavenly!