You will need a 71/2" - 8" cake tin with a loose bottom, lined with baking paper.
Author: Lindsey Dickson
Recipe type: Baking
Serves: 10 slices
Ingredients
CAKE
150g unsalted butter
150g golden caster sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
100g plain four
11/2 tsp baking powder
100g ground almonds
Approx.10 plums, halved and stoned
STREUSEL
75g self raising flour
75g demerera sugar
¼ tsp cinnamon
25g butter
50g flaked almonds
50g pecans, very roughly broken in pieces
Instructions
Preheat oven to 170c fan.
Make the streusel first. Put the flour, cinnamon and sugar in a bowl, rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture is crumbly. Add 2Tbs water and the nuts and mix together with a knife, it should be dry but lumpy. Keep to one side.
Then make the cake part. Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, add the vanilla and the eggs, then mix in the flour, baking powder and ground almonds until smooth. Add a little milk if the mixture is too stiff.
Put the cake mixture in the cake tin and spread evenly. Put the halved plums in a single layer on the top then evenly scatter over the streusel. Don't press it down.
Bake for 1 hr 15 mins.
Recipe by The Eating Tree at http://www.theeatingtree.com/2018/08/29/streusel-plum-cake/