This cake is well-known in my home-country, and it’s quite popular among village people, or at least who prepare homemade jams. Oh, we love make jams in Russia! Nothing can beat a real homemade jam, jam for which you picked up fruits or berries yourself in the garden or forest during summer. And like everything is done at home the taste of every jam in every home is unique. When it is dark and dank outside, or even when it’s a snowstorm during cold Russian winters, it’s such a great pleasure to be at warm and cozy home, sip a hot herbal tea with a spoon of jam, or spread it thickly over a piece of bread.
Many Russian grandmothers used to make this cake, mainly when was a cup of jam left, and nobody wanted to eat it up. Among such ladies was grandmother of my classmate, she used to make delicious cake with strawberry jam!
The cake recipe is very easy and quickly to prepare, you need only few ingredients and patience while it cooks, and the result is sweet and tasty cake! Ability to use any jam is excellent, every time you’re getting new-flavoured cake! Isn’t it cool?
Jam Cake
Ingredients
200ml jam, not watery (I used plum jam)
200ml full fat kefir
1 tsp baking soda
50-100g white sugar, depends how sweet is jam
1 big egg or 2 small
300-350g all-purpose flour
In a big bowl, mix jam and soda, leave it for 5 minutes. In another bowl, slightly beat eggs with sugar.
Add kefir and beaten eggs into jam mixture, stir well. Add flour, and combine all ingredients.
The consistency of the batter should be little bit thicker than for pancakes.
Pour batter into greased pan, bake in preheated 180C/360F oven for 50-60 minutes.
Sprinkle with icing sugar and decorate with fruits or berries, if desired.
Enjoy!
milkandbun 
Love recipes with a history, this looks delicious!
Thanks a lot! 🙂
This looks so delicious! I absolutely love homemade jams, especially using them in baked goods. We made LOTS of jam this summer.
Which jams did you make? 🙂 Love jams too!
Strawberry vanilla, cantaloupe, blackberry and blueberry.
I love the idea of a jam cake! Wonderful!
Thank you, Lori! One of the easiest cakes! 🙂
This looks like a delicious jam cake, Mila, and this recipe makes great use of extra jam! I love all that fresh fruit on top, too.
Absolutely agree with you, Ngan! Thanks for the comment! 🙂
It looks very tasty with the plum jam, one of my favorite 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
This looks delicious! I love that you can change the recipe by simply using a different type of jam each time!
Agree! Using your favorite jam is really great! 🙂
Looks lovely! I’ve just made some blackberry & apple jam which I think might be nice in here, and having had kefir for the first time last month this cake is speaking to me on all levels! Yum 🙂
So, did you like the taste of kefir? 🙂
Beautiful cake, I am a fan of jam, homemade jam in particular.
Thanks a lot!
This looks so good. I like the idea of using homemade jam and that grandma’s make this cake. I think I’ll be making it too. Beautiful photos.
Thanks for the comment, Amanda! 🙂
Love how you have presented this jam cake, it looks so enticing 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Looks lovely…and what a fantastic way to use kefir! 🙂
And jam! 😀
Looks like quite a lovely cake. I love the photo too!
Thanks for the commenting and stopping by! 🙂
I like! This looks so tasty. Perfect for a cup of coffee or tea. And it could even be considered healthy 🙂
Thanks!
Yummy!
Simply beautiful!!!