Little plum cakes

Tamara West

For even more plum content you can add some, chopped, in to each cupcake as well as slicing them for the top.

Ingredients

125 g	Butter, softened
1 cup	Caster sugar
2 large	Eggs
½ cup	Sour cream
1	Orange, finely grated zest of
1 cup	Flour
1 tsp	Baking powder
4	Plums, thinly sliced with stones removed (Main)
⅓ cup	Raw sugar, to sprinkle

Directions

1. Heat oven to 160C fan bake. Line a 12-hole standard muffin tin.
2. Place softened butter and sugar in a bowl, then beat until pale and creamy.
3. Beat in eggs, sour cream and zest of one orange. Sift flour and baking powder over the creamed mixture and stir to combine.
4. Spoon mixture into prepared muffin tin. Arrange a few slices of plum onto the surface of each little cake. Sprinkle a little raw sugar over each.
5. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre of one cake comes out clean. Remove to wire rack to cool.