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Fig & raspberry crumble cake
Wednesday, 03 May 2017 - 11:20 | Views - 538
Ingredients



100g butter

150g golden caster sugar

2 large eggs

½ tsp vanilla extract

125g plain flour

75g ground almonds (preferably freshly ground)

1 tsp baking powder

100g natural yogurt

7 large figs

175g raspberries

30g flaked almonds

crème fraîche, to serve

50g flour

25g cold butter
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Prep: 30 MINS
Cook: 1 HR, 15 MINS

Method

1)Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/ gas 4.

Grease and line the base of a 20cm springform cake tin.

Make the crumble topping by rubbing the flour and butter together with your fingertips until you have a crumbly mixture.

Stir in the sugar.

2)For the cake, cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.

Add the egg, a little at a time, beating well after each addition.

Beat in the vanilla.

Sift the flour and add the almonds and baking powder.

Fold in 1 large tbsp of the flour mixture into the batter, then add the rest, alternating with the yogurt.

3)Snip the stalks off the figs. Halve four of them and chop the rest.

Stir the chopped figs and one-third of the raspberries into the batter, then scrape into the prepared tin.

Lay the halved figs on top and sprinkle on half the remaining raspberries.

Scatter on the crumble, then the rest of the raspberries, then the flaked almonds.

4)Bake in the oven for 1 hr 15 mins or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean 

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