This Plum and Almond Spelt Cake is simply amazing. A lovely moist sponge topped with juicy plums and crumble topping baked with a mix of spelt and almond flour, olive oil and sweetened with little rapadura sugar. The plums work beautifully with the mix and it’s a perfect seasonal cake. Wonderful to enjoy on a Sunday afternoon with your family and friends.
The recipe is fairly simple and easy to make. Plums are in season at the moment and they are so many delicious plums available at fantastic price. And if you fancy some baking this weekend this is a lovely recipe to try:)
Yield: 9"cake
Plum and Almond Spelt Cake
Ingredients
- 3 large red plums or 5 smaller ones
- 140g spelt flour (1 cup)
- 100g ground almonds (1 cup)
- 1tsp baking powder
- 1/2tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1tsp cinnamon
- pinch of sea salt
- 100g rapadura sugar (3/4 cup)
- 3 eggs
- 80ml olive oil (1/3 cup)
- 1tsp vanilla
- 60ml almond milk (1/4 cup)
- Crumble topping:
- 2tbsp flaked almonds
- 1tbsp spelt flour
- 1tbsp rapadura sugar
- 1/2tsp cinnamon
- 1tsp olive oil
Instructions
- Wash plums and cut each into 8 slices. Set aside.
- To prepare the crumble topping mix all the ingredients and set aside.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan)
- Grease and line 9" round spring form cake baking tin.
- In a bowl whisk together spelt flour, ground almonds, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon and salt and set aside.
- In a electric hand or stand up mixer whisk eggs and sugar for about 5 min, add olive oil and vanilla and mix for 2 more min.
- Slowly add dry mix and almond milk bit by bit to the wet mix and mix until combined.
- Spoon the mixture into your prepared tin and level the surface.
- Arrange plums on top and sprinkle with crumble topping.
- Bake for about 35 min or until a cocktail stick comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven once ready and leave to cool down for 20 min before removing from the tin.
- Enjoy!
Spelt is one of my favourite grains. This is one lovely late summer dessert.
Thank you! Same for me, I love baking with spelt:)
This is so far one of my favorite cakes. It is very moist and full of flavor. Thank you!
Hi Cecilia, thank you for your lovely comment, I’m so happy that it turned out well! x