Stone fruits reach their peak in summer, and it’s plums that we think work best in sweet and savoury dishes. Their slightly astringent skin is lessened after some cooking, and their sweet, juicy flesh works beautifully in pastries and icy snow cones. Our very best plum recipes also prove that the dark fruit pairs wonderfully with pork, duck and seafood.
So, if you have a surplus of stone fruit while they’re at their peak and wondering what to do with plums, we have plenty of recipes made with plums to turn to — from dessert dishes to make and bake, such as plum cakes, a crostata tart, and crumbles, to fish crudo with plums and lamb ribs served with spicy plum sauce.
Here are our favourite recipes with plum for the short but oh-so-sweet plum season this year.
Perfect plum recipes for summer in 2025

Blood plum, burrata and watercress salad with toasted barley

Red emperor crudo with stone fruit and orange-oregano dressing

Chicken, roast plum, labne and grain salad

Plum burnt-butter cakes with plum semifreddo

Chocolate trifle with umeshu jelly, plums and crème fraîche

Plum and blackberry cake

Plum and cherry fruit mince tart

Double plum pudding with brown sugar hard sauce

White peach and black plum fruit salad

René Redzepi & Nadine Levy Redzepi’s brandy plum cake

Fragrant plum snow cones

Lamb ribs with spicy plum sauce
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Plum, pear and ginger crumble

Biscotti with blood plum conserva

Tivoli Road Bakery’s blood plum galettes

Slow-cooked pork shoulder with plums

Cherry and plum salad

Plum crostata

Plum torta with cardamom sugar

Char-grilled mackerel with plum glaze and shiso salt

Rabbit terrine with plums and Mirabelle eau-de-vie

Duck poached in fermented green plum master stock with forbidden rice, umeboshi, spring almonds, amaranth

Duck roasted in Lambrusco with blood plums and bay

Spiced plum, cherry and coffee trifle with cardamom crumb

Plum and custard fritters

Leche merengada with spiced plums

Blood plum clafoutis

Blood plum, star anise and nebbiolo relish

Plum and thyme prosecco Spritz
