Chocolate Black Doris Plum Cake recipe + video

This decadent two-tiered cake is lovely to serve for morning tea or a special occasion.

Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 55 minutes
Makes: 1 Cake
Equiment: We used a Kenwood Chef Sense XL mixer

Ingredients

500g	Black Doris Plums (or other plums)
175g	Butter
1 cup	Brown sugar
3	Woodland Eggs
1 cup	Self raising flour
1 tsp	Baking powder
1 cup	FreshLife Ground Almonds
80g	Dark chocolate, chopped

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease and line a springform cake tin.
2. Half the plums, discarding the stones. Set aside half of the plums for the top of the cake. Roughly chop the remaining plums.
3. In a Kenwood Chef XL Sense mixer, add butter and sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs, beating one at a time. Sift in flour and baking powder. Stir in ground almonds. Stir in chopped chocolate and the chopped plums, then pour into the prepared cake tin. Smooth out the batter with a spatula.
4. Gently press the remaining halved plums cut-side-up into the batter.
5. Bake for 50-55 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the middle.
6. Let cool for 10 minutes before removing from the tin.

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