“Do not be afraid to go out on a limb. . .That’s where the fruit is.”
Fresh Plum Spice Cake
Blogging is greatly inspiring. It’s opens the mind to new ideas & makes you look at everything differently. Food blogging for foodies like me goes even a step further. A fruit means more than just a chomp now; it eggs me on to try & widen my horizons!
Cherries have all but disappeared from the market; they show up for a very short period in summer. Peaches, plums & mangoes still rule the roost, with mangoes creating a sort of flood. I’m in a hurry to try out something fruitfully plummy because plums are gonna disappear soon too. Until now, a plum was a mere juicy fruit to dig your teeth into & get splattered with juice ; also a connection to a beautiful colour. Googling opened new vistas & I set forth to try & experiment with a fresh plum cake. Would have thrown some ground almonds in too, but almonds being expensive, didn’t have the heart to take a chance. As an after thought, they may well have tasted wonderful. *Sigh*…next time maybe, but I am rapidly turning into a ‘try everything at least once’ sort of a person…& ‘the everything at least once list’ is rapidly expanding towards infinity; at the best of times is quite daunting! Also, have to balance calories, the bane of our existence!! What a challenging thing life is!!
Serving up a slice of happiness…
Ingredients:
Plums – 8 ; pitted & quartered
Pistachio nuts – ½ cup ; roughly chopped
Butter – ½ cup
Sugar – 1 cup
Eggs – 2
Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp
Almond Extract – 1 tsp
Flour – 1 cup
Cinnamon powder – 1 tbsp
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Salt – ¼ tsp
Topping :
Sugar – 2 tbsps
Cinnamon powder – 1 tsp
Method:
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees c. Grease & line bottom of a non-stick Victoria sandwich tin.
Then turn out onto rack & gently peel off the lining off the top, scraping back any fruit that might cling on to the lining.
Give it a generous sprinkling of powdered sugar & the remaining chopped pistachios. Can dust with powdered sugar before serving again. Serve warm with a drizzle of whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice-cream.
