Upside Down Plum Cake

Here is my fav cake for this time of year.
It's simple, you can use all sorts of different fruit too. Perfect to play with what fruit you may have such as apples, pineapple and more

Upside Down Plum Cake

INGREDIENTS

  • 175g butter, at room temperature

  • 1/3 cup brown sugar

  • 800g firm blood plums, halved, stones removed

  • 1 cup caster sugar

  • 1 tsp vanilla essence

  • 3 eggs, at room temperature

  • 1/2 cup almond meal (ground almonds)

  • 1 1/2 cups self-raising flour, sifted

  • Vanilla ice-cream or whipped cream, to serve

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Step 1
    Preheat oven to 180C. Grease a 6cm-deep, 22cm (base) round cake pan. Line base with baking paper.
  • Step 2
    Melt 50g butter. Drizzle evenly over base of pan. Sprinkle with brown sugar. Place plums, skin side down, in pan to cover base.
  • Step 3
    Using electric beaters, beat remaining 125g butter, caster sugar and vanilla on high speed for 4 to 5 minutes or until pale and creamy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
  • Step 4
    Using a large metal spoon, gently fold in almond meal and flour. Spoon mixture over plums. Smooth surface.
  • Step 5
    Bake cake for 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand cake in pan for 10 minutes. Turn out onto a serving plate. Serve with ice-cream.

recipe from Taste

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