Prune Pound Cake
This Prune Pound Cake is delicious and smells great with a hint of rum flavour. This cake is not so dense and not too sweet even though there are chocolate chips in it. Definitely perfect to serve at any time of the day.
Ingredients
- 190 g butter - soft to touch
- 140 g brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 150 g cake flour or plain flour - sifted
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 40 g almond powder - ground almond
- 40 g chocolate chips
- 100 g pitted prunes - cut to small pieces
- 20 g rum - optional
Instructions
- Soak prunes with rum and set aside.
- Beat butter, brown sugar and vanilla extract till light and fluffy.
- Add eggs, one at a time at low speed till well combined before adding the next.
- Add almond powder and mix with a rubber spatula followed by flour and baking powder, fold well to combine.
- Pour in soaked prunes and chocolate chips, fold mixture well.
- Pour batter into lined cake pan into baking pan (9x4x3 inches) lined with baking paper, smooth top. Drop pan on table top to release air bubbles.
- Bake in preheated oven at 170 degrees for about 50 minutes or skewer inserted comes out dry.
- Remove cake from oven and leave to cool in cake pan for 10-15 minutes. Then unmould cake and place it on wire rack to cool down.
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