Plum Crunch Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 eggs
• 1 egg yolk
• 5 ounces butter
• 5 ounces golden caster sugar
• 5 ounces self raising flour
• 1 orange, juice and zest of, grated
• 4 ounces plums, stoned and roughly chopped
• 4 ounces plums, stoned and cut into wedges
• 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
• 8 ounces golden caster sugar
• 1 ounce sugar cube, roughly crushed

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 160°c.
• 2 butter and line the base of a 2 lb loaf tin.
• 3 lightly beat the eggs and yolk with a pinch of salt.
• 4 beat the butter and sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy.
• 5 pour in the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 6 fold in the flour with the orange zest and two tablespoons of the juice.
• 7 fold in the chopped plums (or other fruit you are using).
• 8 spoon into the prepared pan.
• 9 scatter the plum wedges over the top.
• 10 bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
• 11 cool for 10 minutes, then turn out on a wire rack.
• 12 mix the remaining orange juice with the lemon juice and caster sugar.
• 13 spoon over the cooling cake and sprinkle with the crushed sugar pieces.