honey and plum cake

Ingredients:

Cake:
200g softened unsalted butter or margarine
200g self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4tsp ground nutmeg
4 large eggs
180g good quality honey*
6 to 7 ripe plums, destoned and quartered
25g demerara sugar

[*For this recipe, I used a set honey purely because I have some delicious honey from Crete - I just microwaved it for 30 seconds until it was runny, though runny honey also works].

Method:

1 - Grease and line 8” spring form cake tin with baking paper.
Heat oven to 180C [160C fan].

2 - Using a hand mixer, stand mixer or food processor, combine the flour, spices, baking powder and butter.

3 - Beat in the eggs, along with the honey, and pour the mixture into the cake tin.

4 - Arrange the quartered plums around the top of the cake, and then sprinkle the sugar over the top. Put the cake in the over for around 40-50 minutes until golden brown. [Your plums may sink but don’t worry about that].

5 - Allow the cakes to cool for 5 minutes in the tin and then turn out to cool completely.

6 - Sprinkle with icing sugar before serving. I served this with creme fraiche, though custard or cream would work well too.



Top Tip: * This recipe would also work well with peaches, greengage or other stone fruit.