Photo by Chelsie Craig, Food Styling by Claire Saffitz
Whatever you don’t finish for dessert, you should eat for breakfast. This cake was inspired by New York Times writer Marian Burros’s famous plum torte recipe that ran in the newspaper every September from 1983 until 1989. Her original recipe calls for small plums that sink into the batter, but you’ll get the same effect with apples or berries.
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