Cream cake with punch plums

AUTHOR
Cassandra Brock
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 4
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 250 g semi-soft dried plums, 9 tablespoons port wine
  • 7-10 Tbsp slightly + 200 g butter/margarine
  • 7-10 Tbsp Breadcrumbs
  • 150 g + 1 tablespoon sugar, salt
  • 2 coated Tsp Cinnamon
  • 3 eggs , 250 g flour (Gr. M)
  • 3 deleted Tsp Baking Powder
  • 100 g Dark chocolate coating
  • 250 g + 1-2 tablespoons wild cranberries
  • 600 g Whipped cream
  • 2 packages Cream stabiliser
  • 1 untreated orange slice

Directions

  1. 1

    Quarter the plums, sprinkle with 5 tablespoons of port wine and leave to stand for approx. 3 hours. Grease a springform pan (26 cm Ø), sprinkle with breadcrumbs

  2. 2

    Cream 200 g fat, 150 g sugar, 1 pinch of salt and 1 tsp cinnamon. Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix flour, baking powder and 4 tablespoons port wine. Spread into the mould. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: level 2) for about 30 minutes. Cool down

  3. 3

    Coarsely chop the chocolate coating and melt in a hot water bath. Spread thinly on a smooth surface (e.g. a marble slab or the back of a baking tray). As soon as it begins to set, use a spatula to plane it off in shavings

  4. 4

    Cut the cake base 2 x horizontally. Close the cake ring around the lower cake base. Spread 250 g cranberries on top. Place the 2nd cake base on top. Spread plums on top. Whip the cream until stiff, while pouring in 1 tbsp. sugar, 1 tsp. cinnamon and cream firming agent. Spread a good 1/3 cream on the plums. 3. lay the base on top

  5. 5

    Spread the cake with 2/3 of the remaining cream and decorate with cream tuffs, 1-2 tablespoons cranberries, orange slice and chocolate shavings. Chill for about 3 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
460 kcal
CARBS
47 g
FATS
26 g
PROTEINS
5 g