Vanilla Damson/plum Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 50 g demerara sugar (1/4 cup)
• 1/2 tablespoon vanilla sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 150 g prepared vanilla pudding (i used soy vanilla pudding)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 175 g flour
• 50 g potato starch
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 500 g damsons (1 lb) or 500 g plums, cleaned and quartered (1 lb)
• 50 g biscuits, crushed (e.g. tea biscuits, sugar cookies or try amarettini)

Recipe

• 1 combine eggs, sugars and salt in a big bowl. with your electric mixer cream this for 8 minutes. do not skip this step, it is important to cream for at least 8 minutes!
• 2 stir in oil, pudding and vanilla extract.
• 3 in a second bowl combine flour, starch and baking powder. fold into the wet ingredients.
• 4 pour dough into a greased 10 inch spring-form pan. this will look a little skimpy, but the dough will double during baking.
• 5 arrange the quartered damsons on top of the dough in concentric circles. sprinkle with the crushed cookies.
• 6 bake in the pre-heated oven at 160°c/320°f on the second lowest rack for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
• 7 serve with whipped cream or ice-cream. :).