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Moist Plum Cake


As requested by many, here I share the recipe for the Moist Plum Cake. Due to pure laziness, the apparatus and method to mix the butter has been simplified. So, “Now everyone can bake”....

Kitchen tools that you will require, electric mixer at least the hand held, large bowl, fine grater, mixing spatula, baking paper to line the baking tin and round baking tin (9” x 2”).

Ingredients to prepare earlier: use the fine grater to grate ONE orange or lemon zest and stoned and thickly slice (about 0.5 cm) THREE black plums (purple or red type also suitable), mixed thoroughly with TWO tablespoon of self-raising flour.

Now I will describe the method to prepare the cake batter. What you need to do is (1) put the ingredient one by one from (a) to (i), and (2) mix with the electric mixer after each addition of ingredient.


The ingredients:
(a) 125 mg or ½ blocks of salted butter
(b) ½ cup of fine granulated sugar
(c) ½ cup of light brown sugar, mixed until fluffy
(d) 3 large eggs (add in one by one)
(e) 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
(f) 1 teaspoon of orange or lemon zest
(g) 1 cup of self-raising flour
(h) ½ small tub of natural yogurt
(i) ½ cup of self-raising flour

Before the next step, pre-heat your oven at 350 ̊F or 180 ̊C.

Now the batter is ready, fold in ½ portions of the sliced plums. Then transfer the batter to a baking tin that was lined with baking parchment. Lastly, arrange nicely the balance of the sliced plums on top of the batter prior to baking. Bake the cake for about 45 minutes or test with cake tester until come out clean. Lets the cake to rest at room temperature for about 30 minutes before free the cake from the baking tin, some shrinking may occur, but this is quite normal. Enjoy!


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