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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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.
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