Plum kuchen

Name: Plum kuchen
Ingredients: 275 g/10 oz/2½ cups self-raising (self-rising) flour; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp ground cinnamon; 115 g/4 oz/½ cup butter, diced; 115 g/4 oz/½ cup soft light brown sugar; finely grated rind and juice of 1 small orange; 2 eggs, beaten; 60 ml/4 tbsp milk; 6 large, ripe dark plums, stoned (pitted) and quartered; 30 ml/2 tbsp demerara (raw) sugar; 45 ml/3 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar, to sprinkle

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

Make this spicy cake when luscious plums are in season and at their sweetest and juiciest. Serve with a dollop of thick crème fraîche. Eat this fresh on the day it is baked.

Ingredients

275 g/10 oz/2½ cups self-raising (self-rising) flour
7.5

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Line the base and sides of a 20cm/8in deep round cake tin (pan) with baking parchment.
Sift the flour and 5ml/1 tsp cinnamon into a bowl and add the butter. Rub the butter into the flour until the mixture resemble