Plum cake fruit in these open tarts or flans is cut into suitably sized pieces and the cake is glazed: red glaze is recommended for red plum and rhubarb flans, whereas apricot glaze is recommended in yellow plum and apricot flans. The German plum cake, known as "Zwetschkenkuchen", can be found all over the country, although its home is Bavaria. In chef Robert Carrier's recipe for it, the base is made from yeast pastry rather than often used shortcrust pastry, because the yeast pastry "soaks up the juice form the plums without becoming soggy". In Italy, plum cake is known by the
Plum (color) article and paler than the color of an actual plum. Displayed at right is the color Persian plum from the Xona.com Color List. This is the color traditionally called prune because it is a representation of the average color of prunes. "Prune" is the French word for "plum", but in English the name "prune" is applied to "dried plums". This color is a representation of the color of cooked dried plums (prunes). The first recorded use of "prune" as a color name in English was in 1789. Plum (color) Plum is a purple color with a brownish-gray tinge, like that