Plum dessert cake
This is a delicious cake to savour the sweet tangy of fresh plums. It will work equally well with other fresh summer fruit – like peaches, nectarines or apricots. 6-8 servings.
Ingredients
- 8 plums halved with stones removed
- 3 tablespoons butter
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon extra sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- ⅓ cup buttermilk
- ¾ cup self-raising flour
Instructions
- Heat oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 23cm round cake tin.
- Whisk together butter and sugar till creamy. Add egg, vanilla and buttermilk. Whisk till well combined. Fold through sifted flour till batter is smooth then pour into prepared cake tin.
- Arrange plum pieces onto cake. Sprinkle with extra tablespoon of caster sugar. Bake for 25 - 30 mins or until cake is cooked when tested. Cool to room temperature. Serve with a dollop of cream and dusted with icing sugar.