This is most likely the only time you will get a recipe out of me.
Although I consider myself a good cook I really have not baked for about 15 years.
But the charming blackboard recipe at Eat Me Fruit and Vege, an independent grocer in Nelson, and the fact I was on holiday and very relaxed changed my mind. I thought I would give it a twirl.
Pacific Plum Cake was so good I made it 3 times ( well, I had to buy 1k of flour) I also made it with peaches.
La Table de Nana and The English Kitchen, the two excellent cooking blogs I read regularly, would be proud of me.
Recipe PACIFIC PLUM CAKE
2 cups ripe plums, cut into slices 4 eggs
150g butter ( softened) 1 cup caster sugar
2 cups shredded or desiccated coconut 2 cups self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder 1 cup milk ( 1/2 milk & 1/2 yogurt, yum)
In medium bowl, separate eggs & beat whites till they form soft peaks. In larger bowl, beat butter & caster sugar until creamy. Add yolks one at a time, beating between,then FOLD in coconut, flour, b/powder & the milk yogurt mixture.
FOLD in egg whites and carefully spoon mixture into a round spring form tin. gently plop plum slices evenly into the mixture around the tin.
Bake 1 1/4 hours at 150 or until knife dipped incomes out clean. Serve warm with yogurt and plum slices.
WENDY.
*** I found the oven temp a bit too low .....but we all know our own ovens.
Also great cold, lasts for a week, feeds at least 8.
Sounds (and looks) divine. I'm always looking for recipes using lots of eggs for when all my chickens are laying at once. A bit of an egg drought at the moment as one is broody and the others are being lazy.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of the coconut too. On my list to try.
In NZ there is a chain called "bin inn"( I think) .Useful as you can buy in bulk from 1 gramme
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot - now I'm hungry!!
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