
Plum cake
( MAKES 20cm cake )

Photo by Tamara West
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
- Preheat oven to 180C. Grease a 20cm cake tin and line with baking paper.
- 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).
- Beat eggs with 1 cup caster sugar until ribbony. Fold in grated plums.
- Fold the wet into the dry ingredients until just combined. Fold in melted unsalted butter until incorporated.
- 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
http://www.bite.co.nz/recipe/12288/Plum-cake/
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