Place the sugar and eggs in the warmed bowl and whisk ... Drain the plums of their liqueur and carefully top each fairy cake with a plum piece and a sprinkling of edible gold glitter.

In order to keep the jam full of chunky pieces of plum, this recipe uses a two-stage method – the softened plums will absorb the sugar as they rest in the syrup and this will stop them rising to ...

The sugar will melt into the fruit and create a pretty syrup with no hard work on your part! The plum skin will color the syrup to get that pretty color. If you go to check on your syrup the next ...