Will's Autumnal Loaf Cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- More effort
- Makes Slices
Ingredients
- 200g slightly salted butter
- 250g demerara sugar
- 3 eggs
- 250g plain flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 20ml rum
- 1 vanilla pod
- 1tsp ground cinnamon
- 50g raisins
- 150g fresh blackberries, washed
- digestives, crushed, enough to fill the bottom of the loaf tin
desiccated coconut, for sprinkling
- 1 cinnamon stick
Method
- STEP 1Preheat a fan oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6.
- STEP 2Grease two loaf tins with butter.
- STEP 3Cream the butter and sugar in an electric food mixer, until well incorporated.
- STEP 4Whilst keeping the butter and sugar mixing, add the beaten eggs to the mixture gradually.
- STEP 5Add the rum to the mixture and keep mixing.
- STEP 6Sift the flour and baking powder, and add to the mixture until the mixture stiffens.
- STEP 7Add the seeds of a vanilla pod, the ground cinnamon, raisins and blackberries.
- STEP 8Place the crushed digestives in the the tin, enough to cover the bottom.
- STEP 9Put the cake mixture on the top.
- STEP 10Generously sprinkle with desiccated coconut and place a cinnamon stick in the centre of the tin. Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes.
