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Plum crumble cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Cuts into 10-12 slices
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- 175g butterat room temperature
- 175g golden caster sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 225g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 100g ground almonds
- 85g soured cream
- 5-6 ripe plumshalved and stoned
For the crumble
- 50g ground almonds
- 50g plain flour
- 50g golden caster sugar
- 50g butterchopped into pieces
- soured creamor yogurt, to serve
Nutrition: per slice
- kcal420
- fat25g
- saturates12g
- carbs39g
- sugars22g
- fibre2g
- protein7g
- salt0.6g
Method
step 1
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line a 22cm deep, round cake tin (preferably with a loose bottom) with baking parchment.
step 2
First make the topping: put all the crumble ingredients in a bowl and rub together until crumbly.
step 3
For the cake, put the butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder, vanilla, ground almonds and soured cream in a big bowl. Beat with an electric whisk until smooth, then tip into the tin and level the top. Arrange the plums, cut-side up, over the mix, then scatter over the crumble.
step 4
Bake for 50 mins-1 hr on a middle shelf until a skewer poked into the cake mixture comes out clean (plums will remain sticky, however). Cool in the tin for 20 mins, then finish cooling on a wire rack. Serve plain or with soured cream or yogurt. Keeps for 3-4 days in an airtight cake tin.
