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    Sticky chocolate plum cake

    • Vegetarian
    • Preparation time: 20 minutes, plus cooling
    • Cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes
    • Total time: 1 hour 40 minutes, plus cooling

    Serves: 12

    Ingredients

    175g unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus extra for greasing
    175g dark brown muscovado sugar
    3 eggs, lightly beaten
    125g self-raising flour
    1 tsp baking powder
    50g cocoa powder, sifted
    175g ground almonds
    75g dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), roughly chopped
    400g plums, halved
    2 tbsp demerara sugar
    3 tbsp plum preserve or jam
    2 tbsp toasted flaked almonds

    Method

    1 Preheat the oven to 180˚C, gas mark 4. Grease and line the base of a 23cm loose-bottomed cake tin. Beat together the butter and muscovado sugar until fluffy, then gradually whisk in the eggs. Fold in the flour, baking powder, cocoa and ground almonds, followed by the chocolate.

    2. Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin, levelling the surface with the back of the spoon (it will be quite thick). Arrange the plums on top, cut-side up, pressing them down lightly so that they are pushed slightly into the mixture. Sprinkle over the demerara sugar and bake for 1 hour–1 hour 15 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool completely in the tin.

    3. Before serving, melt the preserve or jam in a small pan with a splash of water. Brush over the top of the cake and scatter with the flaked almonds. SF 

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    This recipe first appeared in the Harvest section of Waitrose Food, October 2016 issue. Download the Waitose Food app for the full issue

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