Plum loaf cake, sliced on a board

Plum cake

Name: Plum cake
Total time: 2 h
Yield: Serves 10
Ingredients: 1 earl grey teabag; 3 tbsp caster sugar; 8 small plums halved; 225g unsalted butter at room temperature; 125g caster sugar; 100g light muscovado; 1 earl grey teabag; 4 eggs; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 250g plain flour; 3 tsp baking powder

Published: August 13, 2015 at 11:02 AM

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Serves 10

Easy

Total time: 2 hrs

+ cooling

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Our fruity loaf cake makes for the perfect afternoon treat with a cup of tea (earl grey, naturally). We use earl grey-soaked plums to add subtle floral notes to this easy bake

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Ingredients

Nutrition

1 earl grey teabag
3 tbsp caster sugar
8 small plums

halved

CAKE

225g unsalted butter

at room temperature
125g caster sugar
100g light muscovado
1 earl grey teabag
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
250g plain flour
3 tsp baking powder

Nutrition: per serving

kcal411
fat20.8g
saturates12.2g
carbs49.5g
fibre1.5g
protein5.5g
salt0.4g

Method

step 1

Put the teabag and the 3 tbsp sugar in a deep frying pan and add 500ml water. Bring to a simmer and add the plums cut-side down. Cook for 5 minutes, then turn them over and cook for another 5 minutes. At this point, you should be able to flick the stones out easily. Cool completely, then lift the plums out of the syrup, discard the teabag (and bubble it if it seems too thin, you want it thick enough to glaze the cake at the end).
step 2

Heat the oven to 170C/fan 150C/gas 3. Butter and line a 23 x 13cm loaf tin. Beat the butter until it is light. Whizz 1 tbsp caster sugar with ½ tsp of the tea from the bag in a spice grinder (or crush them in a mortar). Beat this and the remaining sugars with the butter until the mixture is light and fluffy, then beat in the eggs, vanilla, flour and baking powder until you have a thick batter.
step 3

Spoon into the tin and add a layer of plums to the top, making sure there is cake visible around the edges of the tin. The plums will sink as the cake cooks. Bake the cake for 55 minutes-1 hour, the cake will pull away from the sides of the tin when it’s ready. Cool for 5 minutes, then tip the cake out gently and turn it the right way up. Brush the syrup over the top several times, letting it sink in each time. Cool completely.

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