PLUM TORTE

This cake has very few ingredients, takes only minutes to prepare yet the cake is moist, fruity and irresistible.

Ingredients

125 g flour 1 tsp baking powder 125g sugar plus 2 Tbsp for top of cake 125g butter, softened 2 large eggs 12 smallish plums, halved and pitted 1 orange, zest and 1 Tbsp juice 1 tsp cinnamon

Method

Preheat oven to 180C.

Sift together flour, baking powder in a medium bowl. In another bowl, cream butter and sugar together with an electric mixer or by hand until fluffy and light in colour. Add the eggs, one at a time, then the dry ingredients, mixing until just combined.

Spoon mixture into a lightly greased 18cm cake tin and smooth the top. Arrange the plums, skin side up so the surface is covered with the plums.

Sprinkle the top with orange juice, then cinnamon, then remaining sugar.

Bake until cake is golden and a toothpick inserted into a centre part of the cake comes out clean, about 45 to 50 minutes. Cool on rack.