Sorry what a shite photo. It looked nice in real life.
This is a very handy cake to have up your sleeve – it works as well as for a teatime treat as for an evening pudding with a blob of creme fraiche, keeps well (thank you, Mr Ground Almond), easy to put together and looks pretty. Two very enthusiastic thumbs up.
Blueberry Almond pudding cake
Preheat your oven to 180C – a bit less if you have a fan oven
125g self raising flour
125g ground almonds
200g caster sugar
200g butter
4 eggs, separated
150g blueberries or a mix of blueberries and raspberries.
1 Cream the butter and 175g of the sugar together. Add the egg yolks and combine. Fold in the flour.
2 In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until you have soft peaks, then beat in the 25g of the sugar (if you fuck this up and forget to keep back the sugar for this stage, don’t worry, it doesn’t make a difference I don’t think). Carefully fold in the ground almonds
3 Gently fold the mixtures together until basically combined, then turn out into a greased and lined tin.
4 Smooth the top with a wet spatula and scatter evenly with the berries.
Bake for 1 hour and wonder if it’s just me or does my husband look a lot like Keanu Reeves.
I’m going to make this. Possibly today if I can get some ground almonds.
can he look like Keanu Reeves as well as Bruce Springsteen? My brother’s friend Ian used to look like a lot of different actors, even though they didn’t look like each other. Gary Busey was one. Whenever I think of Gary Busey I always think of that line from Biff’s question song “who’s the biggest jerk?”. This stream of consciousness was brought to you by me avoiding the pre school run coat and shoe madness that awaits downstairs.
God, this sort of cake is brilliant. You can use frozen (and defrosted – otherwise it takes AGES to cook, duh) berries as well, though they don’t look quite so pretty, but you can put half the cake mixture in, the the berries, then the rest of the cake mixture and you have a sort of self-filled cake. Result. Also excellent with gooseberries.
These are similar and delicious, if you want individual versions http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/marzipan_berry_cakes_91508
It looks so delicious! I have to try this recipe this weekend. Thanks for sharing.
Not a shite photo at all. Plus it’s nice to see a photo of what it’s actually likely to look like than some over-styled rubbish. In Aus here so no blueberries but will give it a crack with some apples I have a glut of.
Your photo is fine, do not apologise. And cake looks and sounds delicious- I will do this!
I know what you mean about Keanu Reeves, I think it’s partly due to their facial hair x
Great recipe. Made it. Tastes fab. Everyone likes it. Thanks v much.
you’re so welcome David x
This recipe is brilliant. Made it at the weekend and everyone loved it..
Thanks so much. Going in the keeper file.