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Plum cake with walnuts

A plain cake tin, plum jam in the batter, and walnuts on top.

60 min · Serves 8

A slice of plum cake with walnuts

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup coconut sugar
  • 3 cups whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 cup plum jam, plus 1/3 cup for the top
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, plus 1/4 cup for the top
  • 1 cup almond milk

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F / 180°C. Grease a cake mold and dust it with flour.
  2. Mix the flour, sugar, oil, baking soda, vanilla, cocoa, cinnamon, nutmeg, and the 1/2 cup of walnuts.
  3. Stir the 1 cup of plum jam with the almond milk, then mix that into the dry ingredients.
  4. Spread the batter in the mold and bake about 50 minutes, until a wooden stick in the center comes out clean.
  5. Cool the cake in the mold. Turn it out and finish with the rest of the jam and walnuts.

The trees

Fruit

Plum

Prunus domestica

The cake is mixed with plum jam, then finished with more jam on top.

Nut

Walnut

Juglans regia

Chopped walnuts go through the cake batter and a few more sit on the cooled cake.

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