Almond and plum cake. Plums get all the credit for making the best looking rustic cakes ever, don't they? And tarts too, let's not forget the all-time favorite crumble plum tart. End of the summer stone fruit always makes me rush into the kitchen for those last recipes with peaches and. Almond and plum cake

You can cook Almond and plum cake using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Almond and plum cake
  1. Prepare 240 grams of almond meal.
  2. You need 1/2 head of orange juice squeezed from half an orange.
  3. It’s 1 of orange zest from whole orange.
  4. Prepare 150 grams of softened butter.
  5. You need 150 grams of caster sugar.
  6. You need 3 of eggs.
  7. It’s 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
  8. It’s 75 grams of all-purpose flour.
  9. You need 3 of plums - cut into thin wedged slices.
  10. Prepare 1 of cooking oil spray.

Whisk flour, almond meal, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Plum and Almond Traybake Cake is a moist almond sponge hiding luscious pieces of fresh plum and topped with crisp flaked almonds. This cake, adapted from Rustic Italian by Domenica Marchetti is called the Torta di Prugne e Mandorle or. Almond Plum Cake as a comfort food dessert.

Almond and plum cake step by step

  1. Preheat the oven to 160°C. Coat a 23cm round springform pan with cooking oli spray.

  2. Using an electric mixer, beat the butter and 2/3 cup (150g) sugar on medium speed until light and creamy. Gradually beat in the almond meal. Add the eggs one at a time. Mix in the orange juice, orange zest, baking powder and. Reduce the speed to low and mix in the flour until just blended..

  3. Transfer the batter to the prepared pan..

  4. Gently place the plum wedges on top of the batter. Sprinkle with some caster sugar..

  5. Bake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out with a few moist crumbs. Transfer the cake to a wire rack and allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes..

I like this cake best when still a little warm from the oven. We served it with a small scoop of vanilla bean ice cream and it was just sublime. I might just be fighting Elisabeth for those prune plums every summer at the supermarket now. Though we made this summer cake with plums, you could also swap in another stone fruit like peaches or apricots. I didn't have the almond slices on hand and used Verry Cherry Plums for the fruit.