Name: Danish Apple and Prune Cake
Cuisine: Denmark
Ingredients: 200 g/7 oz caster sugar; 2 eggs, well beaten; 140 g/5 oz butter; butter; 3 tbsp sugar; ground cinnamon; 115 g/4 oz shelled walnuts, finely chopped and mixed with 2 tbsp sugar; 2 green apples, cored and sliced; 8 stoned prunes; chopped; 1 tbsp boiling water; ½ tsp baking powder; 125 ml/4 floz milk; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 85 g/3 oz self-raising flour; 115 g/4 oz ground almonds

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Two Fat Ladies

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1996

About

This is a recipe from the great Australian cook Greta Anna. I hope you love it as much as I do. I had a Danish great-grandmother but she couldn’t cook, so thank you Greta Anna.

Ingredients

For the Batter

140 g/5 oz butter
200 g/7

Method

Cream together all the ingredients for the batter in a food processor, running it for 10 seconds. Run a spatula round the bowl and process for 5 seconds more. Pour into a well-buttered 25 cm/10 in round ca