CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH PLUMS

CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH PLUMS
The first cake I ever dared to bake by myself was a chocolate cake. I have since baked it many times, always using the same recipe, and many times I have spoiled it at the beginning of preparation. It is necessary to cool down the chocolate mixture before adding the rest of the ingredients. On a hot summer day this process is very long, so I accelerated it by putting the pot with the mixture into some cold water in the kitchen sink. Many times, by mi…stake, I turned on the tap and poured water onto the cooling mixture. In hindsight these situations were amusing, but at the time it wasn’t funny.
This chocolate cake is excellent without any additives. You can enrich it with your favourite nuts or butter icing. Today I added some plums to the top of the cake. It was great and its sweet chocolate-plum aroma lingered long in my home.
(25cm cake tin):
200 g of flour
150 g of butter
3 tablespoons of cocoa
120 g of brown sugar
15 ml of almond milk
100 g of dark chocolate
1 egg
1 teaspoon of baking powder
Plums
Heat the oven up to 180C. Smooth the cake tin with the butter and sprinkle with dark cocoa.
Put the butter, milk, sugar, cocoa and chocolate into the pan. Heat it until the chocolate is melted and all the ingredients have blended together well. Leave the mixture to cool down. Add the egg, flour and baking soda and mix them in. Put the dough into the cake tin. Wash the plums, cut them in half and remove the stones. Arrange the plum halves skin side down on top of the cake. Bake for 50 minutes. Sprinkle with caster sugar before serving.
Recipe and photo: Katarzyna Postuszny
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