Stone fruit and crème fraîche cake

Name: Stone fruit and crème fraîche cake (Gâteaux aux fruits et crème fraîche)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Serves: 4-6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 200 g (7 oz) stone fruits (such as apricots, nectarines, cherries and peaches), halved, stoned and chopped; ¼ tsp baking powder; 115 g (4 oz) butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 115 g (4 oz) brown sugar; ½ tsp grated nutmeg; 5 tbsp crème fraîche; 2 eggs; 125 g (4½ oz) self-raising flour

Gâteaux aux fruits et crème fraîche

Preparation info

Serves:
4-6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

New Bistro

By Fran Warde

Published 2009

About

In the summer months, when fresh apricots, nectarines, cherries and peaches are abundant and you want to cook with them, why not make this lovely dessert-style cake to enjoy with a fine cup of coffee?

Ingredients

115 g (4 oz) butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
115 g (4

Europe
France
Cake
Dessert
Mediterranean
Normandy
Vegetarian
Summer

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Grease a 20 cm (8-inch) round cake tin. Blend together