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Galit Haviv-Thomas

Fresh Fruit Cake

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Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 70 grams butter
  • 2/3 cups sugar
  • 3 egg yolks keep the whites for later
  • 1 heaped cup of flour
  • 2 tablespoons cornflour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 tablespoons orange juice
  • 3 egg whites
  • 3/4 - 1 kg fruit fruit (apricots, plumes, blueberries), clean and stoned, chopped
  • Icing Sugar

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 180º C
  2. Mix butter, sugar and egg yolks until a light and fluffy
  3. Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl
  4. Add orange juice and the dry ingredients to egg mixture
  5. Beat egg whites until it has little peaks
  6. Mix gently into the cake mixture.
  7. Lay the resulting mixture in the bottom of a greased 20 cm x 20 cm square cake tin
  8. Lay fruit on top of cake mixture
  9. Bake at 180º C for 40-50 minutes until golden. The cake mixture will rise through the fruit layer.
  10. Remove and leave to cool.
  11. Dust with icing sugar