Plum Cake Recipe Mary Berry Almond Plum Cake Quick Easy Best Served Warm With Vanilla Ice Cream

A good crumble contains the right balance of fat to flour and has the texture of fine breadcrumbs.

Strawberry cake recipe homemade. Mix flour and baking powder and sift into creamed mixture. Lightly stir in the flour coated plums and pour the mixture into the prepared loaf tin. I baked it in a heart shaped tin so it was hard to measure but it was about 10cm x 10cm.

Before i made a plum cake whith a simple sponge recipe and put the plums in without any cooking. Sift in the flour bicarbonate of soda and spices then mix to a smooth batter. Mary berrys delicious plum crumble serves 4 6.

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How to make the perfect christmas cake. Let cool in the tin for 10 to 15 minutes before removing and slicing. Beat sugar and butter until fluffy with electric mixer.

She has been a judge on the great british bake off since its launch in 2010. Mary berrys tarte tatin with plum and marzipan is a delicious twist on the classic show stopper. Sprinkle the top of the cake with dark brown sugar.

For the cake melt the butter muscovado sugar and syrup in a large pan over a low heat stirring until smooth. Marys classic tip to ring the changes you could add a teaspoon of ground ginger to the crumble topping. Cool for 10 mins then stir in the eggs and milk.

Mary berrys plum crumble can be assembled up to a day ahead and kept in the fridge. If there is too much fat the topping will melt if too little the result will be dry. Bake in the preheated oven until a skewer inserted into the centre of the loaf cake comes out clean 45 to 50 minutes.

In the swinging 60s she became the cookery editor of housewife magazine followed by ideal home magazine. How to make the perfect christmas cake recipes. Mary berry is one of the best known and respected cookery writers and broadcasters in the uk.

That way the plums were more inside the cake. Freeze freezes well assembled but uncooked. Serve this hearty fruit sponge with a dollop of something creamy it would.