for 16 pieces

Cake mixture

150 g	butter, cut into pieces, soft
200 g	sugar
1 pinch	salt
4	eggs
150	white flour
100	ground almonds
1 tsp	baking powder

Plums

500 g	plums, pitted, cut into segments
2 tbsp	flaked almonds
1 tbsp	sugar

How it's done

Cake mixture

Using the whisk on a hand mixer, beat the butter, sugar and salt in a bowl until light and creamy. Add the eggs one at a time and continue to beat for approx. 5 mins. until the mixture becomes lighter in colour. Combine the flour, almonds and baking powder, mix in.

Plums

Mix half of the plums into the cake mixture and transfer to the prepared tin. Arrange the remainder of the plums on top, sprinkle with flaked almonds and sugar.

To bake

Approx. 1 hr. 10 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 180°C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly, remove from the tin and leave to cool on a rack.

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