Sunday, 31 January 2010

Kick out the Jams

7kg’s of Blood Plums
A whole lot of sugar

Equals

15 jars of jam
One Plum upside down cake
and a very sticky kitchen.






Plum upside down cake

90g melted butter and
125g softened butter
½ cup brown sugar
8 or 10 plums halved
¾ cup castor sugar
2 eggs
vanilla
1 ½ cups wholemeal self raising flour
I teaspoon baking powder
½ cup milk or fruit juice

Add melted butter to the bottom of a round spring release cake tin. Grease the sides of the tin.
Add brown sugar and place halved plums face down in tin.
Beat softened butter with caster sugar until pale
Add eggs one at a time beating well in between
Add vanilla.
Fold in flour and baking powder.
Fold in Milk/juice spoon on top of fruit in tin, cool for 50-55 min at 160 Degrees C.
Leave for 10 minutes and turn upside down.

Adapted from a pineapple upside down cake from Delicious magazine which really is delicious.

1 comment:

grant said...

missing you after seeing/reading that
xg