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Plum cake
( MAKES 20cm cake )

Warren Elwin

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Ingredients

1½ cups Self raising flour
1 tsp Baking soda
½ tsp Salt
½ tsp Grated nutmeg
½ tsp Five spice
½ cup Pecan meal, (blitz whole nuts to make meal)
3 Eggs
1 cup Caster sugar, plus extra to sprinkle over cake
500 g Plums, red, grated, plus extra plum slices to top cake
100 g Unsalted butter, melted
1 pot Cream, or yoghurt to serve

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 180C. Grease a 20cm cake tin and line with baking paper.
  2. In a bowl, sift together self-raising flour, baking soda, salt, grated nutmeg and five spice powder and mix in the blitzed pecans (pecan meal).
  3. Beat eggs with 1 cup caster sugar until ribbony. Fold in grated plums.
  4. Fold the wet into the dry ingredients until just combined. Fold in melted unsalted butter until incorporated.
  5. Pour into the greased and lined tin, arrange thin slices of plum across the top, sprinkle with caster sugar and bake for 1 hour, or until a skewer comes out clean. Serve with cream or yoghurt.

 

See Warren's other plum recipes

  • Poached plums
  • Rum plum shake
  • Plum sauce
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