Tangy plums set in a soft pistachio cake batter and drizzled with a yogurt icing, tinged pretty pink with plum juice. A comforting early autumnal cake using stone fruit from summer just passed. Lightly sweet with a warm and slightly salty nutty crumb. The cake is not dense but it is not airy either, a perfect in between state. The original cake is an almond and fruit cake from my grandmothers handwritten recipe archives….
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Cherry clafoutis
More pancake that cake. More flan than tart. A Clafoutis is a dense custardy, cream dessert studded with cherries and spiced with amaretto. I have been making clafoutis for as long as I have been baking - the recipe I learnt from was pulled out of one of my mum’s old Better Homes and Garden’s magazines from the 80s.
Read MoreBaked Mascarpone Cheesecake with Honey Roasted Plums
I roasted some plums in honey and ground cinnamon then placed them on a bed of velvety baked cream cheese and mascarpone. I added cardamom and ginger into the biscuit crust for some autumnal warmth. This cheesecake is creamy rather than cakey thanks to the mascarpone but this does mean it needs a longer sit time in the fridge to set and if you don't bake it long enough the centre can collapse a little under the weight of warm plums.
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Vegan Raspberry Cheesecake Bars
Healthy, raw and vegan, these cheesecake bars are wonderful frozen!
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Healthy(ish) Banana Bread
Every home cook should and usually do have a solid trusty banana bread staple in their repertoire. It is rich, delicious, pillowy soft on the inside and crunchy sweet on the outside. This recipe is gluten free (for no other reason than I prefer the flavour and heaviness buckwheat flour lends to the bread). It is refined sugar free too, using coconut sugar and maple syrup instead.
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