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torta morbida di rabarbaro e prugne

PLUM AND RHUBARB SOFT CAKE

A very fragrant and delicious dessert, perfect for a special snack! Honeyed rhubarb, plums and cranberries are the essence of this cake!
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine Mediterranea
Servings 6 persons

Attrezzature

  • 24 cm cake pan

Ingredients
  

For the honeyed fruit:

  • 150 g rhubarb 100 g net of waste,
  • 200 g summer plums 180 g net of waste,
  • 50 g dry cranberries
  • 45 g honey for me organic orange honey Rigoni di Asiago ,

For the cake:

  • 280 gr flour 00
  • 100 gr chopped peeled almonds
  • 120 gr sugar
  • 10 gr baking powder
  • 2 large eggs
  • 200 ml fresh whole milk
  • 120 gr melted butter

To complete:

  • 4 summer plums

Instructions
 

  • Start preparing the honeyed fruit: wash plums, pit them, cut them into small pieces and put them in a large pan.
  • Clean the rhubarb (it cleans like celery, removing the hardest external filaments) and cut it into small pieces too. Add it in the pan.
  • Also add the cranberries and honey.
  • Turn on the heat and cook for 5 minutes.
  • Turn off and filter the juice keeping it aside, separated from fruit.
  • Let it cool and, in the meantime, prepare the base of the cake.
  • Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
  • Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl: flour, almonds, sugar and baking powder. Mix.
  • Combine the liquid ingredients in another bowl: eggs, milk and melted butter. Beat with a fork.
  • Mix the liquid ingredients with the dry ones
  • .Finally add the fruit kept aside and pour the mixture into a buttered and floured 24 cm cake pan
  • .Bake for 30 minutes
  • .Remove from the oven, let the cake cool completely, then sprinkle it with icing sugar.
  • Cut the plums for decoration into quarters and place them in the center of the cake.
  • Drizzle with the preserved liquid and serve.
Keyword rhubarb, plums, rhubarb soft cake, almond soft cake