Gardeners are so busy at this time of the year. Add a job and a few kids to the mix, and cake baking, which should be near the top of the priority list languishes way below.
Here’s the world’s most simple cake, especially for you my friends – I know you’re busy and I know you love cake.
Get ready
- Butter then flour a 20cm springform tin or a loaf tin
- Mix a cinnamon sugar topping together in a small bowl: 2 Tblspns of raw sugar + 2 tspns of cinnamon.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C conventional or 160°C fan
Ingredients
150g of your favourite flour. Its nice to substitute some of the flour with ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp of cinnamon or cardamon
150g dark brown sugar
pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla
120g melted butter
2 beaten eggs
500g(ish) plums (or any stonefruit) sliced into thick wedges. Leave the skin on.
Method
- Whisk all the dry ingredients together
- Mix eggs, butter and vanilla and add to the flour, bringing the mix together until all the dry is incorporated
- Pour into the tin, smooth the top and pile the fruit on
- Sprinkle cinnamon sugar over
- Bake at 180 degrees until the side comes away from the tin and a skewer comes out clean. In my old oven this takes 50minutes.
This is best eaten on the day its made. If any cake is leftover, store it in an air tight container in the fridge.