breakfast > Breakfast cake with Apples and Plums

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280g flour, 1 ½ tsp baking powder, ¼ tsp salt. 190g ripe apples (peeled, core and cut into pieces), 190g ripe plums (peeled, stone and cut into pieces), fresh juice from ½ orange. 35g brown sugar, 1 ½ tsp ground nutmeg, 1tsp ground cinnamon, 120g softened butter, 200g cream cheese, 150g sugar, 1tsp vanilla essence, 2 large eggs. icing sugar to sprinkle. 

Method:

• Heat oven to 160°C fan. Grease and flour a deep 25cm springform cake tin.

 

• Mix together 280g flour, 1 ½ tsp baking powder and ¼ tsp salt in bowl. This is the dry mixture.

 

• In another bowl, mix 190g ripe apples (peeled, core and cut into pieces), 190g ripe plums (peeled, stone and cut into pieces) with the strained fresh juice from ½ orange.

 

• Mix 35g brown sugar with 1 ½ tsp ground nutmeg and 1tsp ground cinnamon. Add the mix in the apples and plums bowl and combine.

 

• In a separate bowl, use a hand mixer “on a medium speed” and mix: 120g softened butter, 200g cream cheese, 150g sugar and 1tsp vanilla essence until a thin and fluffy cream is obtained. While mixing, add one by one, 2 large eggs. Now incorporate in two or three stages the dry mixture, continuing to use the mixer.

 

• With a spatula, stir to combine the apples and plums, then scrape into the tin.

 

• Bake for 60 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes.

 

• Remove the cake from the tin, then place the cake on a wire grill and let it cool. Once cool, sprinkle icing sugar all over the cake and serve.    

"bon appétit"