Sloe Gin Layer Cake

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Sloe Gin Layer Cake
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Sloe Gin Layer Cake

Recipe by Olive MagazineCourse: Sweet TreatsDifficulty: Easy
Servings

12

servings
Prep time

30

minutes
Total time

1

hour 

15

minutes

This luscious cake takes one hour plus cooling time to prepare. And it’s surprisingly easy considering how good it looks. There’s something very moreish about sloe gin – available in most supermarkets including Ocado – and teaming it with plums is inspired. I haven’t made this yet, but am going to serve it at our Lockdown Lunch Club in a few weeks time. Am going to use mascarpone (my absolute favourite) instead of buttercream.

Ingredients

  • butter 200g, at room temperature

  • golden caster sugar 200g

  • eggs 4

  • plain flour 175g

  • baking powder 1 tsp

  • ground almonds 90g

  • buttermilk 100ml

  • flaked almonds 4 tbsp

  • FILLING:

  • butter 100g, softened

  • icing sugar 140g, plus more for dusting

  • dark purple plums 3-4

  • sloe gin 150ml

  • golden caster sugar 30g

Directions

  • Heat the oven to 170C/fan 150C/gas 3½. Cream the butter and sugar until they are light and fluffy, then beat in the eggs one by one, adding a tablespoon of flour after the first egg. Fold in the flour, baking powder and ground almonds followed by the buttermilk. Spoon the mixture into two buttered and lined 18 cm loose-based sponge tins and sprinkle the almonds over the surface of each tin. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until the cakes are risen and golden, then cool on wire racks.
  • Meanwhile, beat the butter for the filling until it’s light and creamy and beat in the icing sugar to make a butter cream. Tip the plums into a pan with the sloe gin and sugar and cook them together until the plums just soften but hold their shape. Scoop out and cool the plums. Reduce the liquid to a syrup.
  • Sandwich the cakes together with some of the syrup and the butter cream. Decorate with the plums, a few more almonds and a drizzle of the syrup.