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Will's Autumnal Loaf Cake
Makes Slices
More effort
Total time:
When the leaves are starting to fall, this is a perfect recipe for September.
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- 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 1
Preheat a fan oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6.step 2
Grease two loaf tins with butter.step 3
Cream the butter and sugar in an electric food mixer, until well incorporated.step 4
Whilst keeping the butter and sugar mixing, add the beaten eggs to the mixture gradually.step 5
Add the rum to the mixture and keep mixing.step 6
Sift the flour and baking powder, and add to the mixture until the mixture stiffens.step 7
Add the seeds of a vanilla pod, the ground cinnamon, raisins and blackberries.step 8
Place the crushed digestives in the the tin, enough to cover the bottom.step 9
Put the cake mixture on the top.step 10
Generously sprinkle with desiccated coconut and place a cinnamon stick in the centre of the tin. Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes.
