Mother's plum cake
Ingredients
for 8 pieces
| 150 g | butter, soft |
| 150 g | sugar |
| 1 pinch | salt |
| 3 | eggs |
| 1 | organic lemon, use grated zest and 2 tsp of juice |
| 200 g | white flour |
| ¾ tsp | baking powder |
| 750 g | plums, halved, pitted |
| 3 tbsp | flaked almonds |
| 2 dl | cream |
| 2 tbsp | sugar |
| ½ tsp | cinnamon |
How it's done
Cake batter
Place the butter in a bowl, whisk in the sugar and salt. Add the eggs one at a time and continue to beat until the mixture becomes lighter in colour. Add the lemon zest and juice, mix. Combine the flour and baking powder, stir into the mixture. Transfer the cake batter to the prepared tin. Place the plum halves vertically into the batter and sprinkle with the flaked almonds.
To bake
Approx. 60 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 180°C. Remove from the oven, leave to cool in the tin.
Cinnamon cream
Beat the cream with the sugar and cinnamon until stiff, serve with the cake.
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