Plum Hazelnut Yogurt Cake - gluten free

This plum hazelnut yogurt cake made me reconsider gluten free baking. It's that amazing.

I love my gadgets, the cherry pitter, the melon scooper, the different microplane graters, garlic press and a few more that make some cooking steps easier, very in sync with these modern times when we don't have time but crave old-fashioned cakes, and have a million ideas and recipes and try to find something different to post, because really, there are no more cooking secrets. Everything is out there.

A few days ago I made a very nice discovery while making this cake. I used the apple corer to core plums. Do you all use it for that? Maybe it's even sold for plums, but the truth is that it was one little useless gadget for me.

Unless you want perfect half apples, which I rarely do, since I mostly use them chopped or sliced, the correct tool wasn't much helpful, it just didn't do the job quite right. The core was always bigger so once wasn't enough, and by the time I took the whole of the core out the half apple wasn't looking very even. Much easier with a big knife.

And then the plums are so darn hard to open in two without making a mess while trying to take the stone out. Now that problem is solved thanks to my plum corer, which will never go near an apple again. Happy with an apple-turned-plum corer. There are days when I really don't need much, do I?

But it´s so moist and tender it's going straight into my favorite recipes.

The plums give it a slightly tangy tone, the olive oil is barely noticeably as a flavor and the combination of flours work.

Any stone fruit and nut flour that you like together work here. Peaches or cherries and almonds is one. The first time I baked it, it was without any fruit but with grapefruit zest instead of orange. It's a good alternative, though even less sweet.

If you want to try a gluten free cake this is amazing. Highly recommended.