First Autumn recipe of this year for the cosy evenings in or the slower weekends is HERE! The soft cake layer with a blend of Amaretto & lemon flavours paired with plums coated in cinnamon. And if that wasn’t great enough… the cake is also topped with a very generous amount of crumble. This cake doesn’t require a lot of effort to prepare, bakes in less than 40 minutes and pleases all of the taste buds when you try it.
Ingredients:
Crumble:
- 50g plain flour
- 35g granulated sugar
- 30g butter – melted
Cake:
- 80g butter – melted
- 145g granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 35g Amaretto
- 80g greek yoghurt
- 180g plain flour
- 5g baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- Zest from 1 lemon
- 30ml lemon juice
- 4-5 plums
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 180C – no fan.
- Melt the butter (for the cake layer) in a microwave and set aside to let it cool.
- Cut the plums into quarters and place in a medium bowl. Add a teaspoon of cinnamon, shake the bowl until the cinnamon coats the plums and set aside.
- Line the bottom of a 22cm round (spring form) tin with baking paper. Grease the sides of the tin with a little bit of butter.
Crumble: - Place flour and sugar in a bowl. Melt the butter in a microwave (no need to cool) and pour it into the bowl. Using a fork, stir until combined – the mixture should start forming into crumbs. Place in the fridge while you prepare the cake layer.
Cake: - Place sugar, melted butter, eggs, vanilla extract and Amaretto in a mixing bowl. Whisk for about 2 minutes until well combined.
- In a bowl stir together flour with baking powder and add it to the wet ingredients. Using a spatula, stir until almost combined.
- Add greek yoghurt, lemon juice and zest and slowly stir until combined. Try not to over-mix. Pour the cake batter into the prepared tin.
- Place the cinnamon covered plums over the cake batter and sprinkle the whole cake with crumble.
- Bake for about 35mins or until a bbq skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Enjoy! 🙂 If you bake it, remember to tag me on Instagram, I’d love to see it!
