Caramelised plum upside-down cake

Name: Caramelised plum upside-down cake
Yield: 8-10
Ingredients: 2 tsp sunflower oil,for greasing; 300g granulated sugar; 100g unsalted butter, very soft; ½ tsp vanilla extract; ¼ tsp salt; 8 plums, halved and stoned; 40g dark brown soft sugar; 2 eggs, beaten; 25g cornflour; 50g ground almonds; 100g plain flour; 1 tsp baking powder

Faiza Hayani Bellili's's recipe for caramelised plum upside-down cake comes from Together, a cookbook organised by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in aid of the Hubb Community Kitchen, set up for women displaced by the Grenfell Tower fire

1 October 2018

Jenny Zarins

As soon as I heard about the Kitchen, I volunteered to help, cooking recipes from my homeland, Algeria. This cake is one my Mum used to make. She always said plums are an unreliable fruit – they can be quite sour when raw. This brings out the best in them.

This recipe comes from Together: Our Community Cookbook, by the Hubb Community Kitchen and HRH The Duchess of Sussex (Ebury), £9.99. Buy a copy here.

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