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Buttermilk cake

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Preparation time:

about 20 minutes

Baking time: about 25 minutes

For the baking sheet (40 × 30 cm/16 × 12 in):

a little fat

For the all-in-one sponge:

300 g/10 oz (3 cups) plain (all purpose) flour 1 sachet baking powder 300 g/10 oz (1½ cups) sugar 1 sachet vanilla sugar 3 eggs (medium) 300 ml/10 fl oz (1¼ cups) buttermilk

For the topping:

150 g/5 oz (¾ cup) butter 150 g/5 oz (¾ cup) sugar 200 g/7 oz (1⅔ cups) slivered almonds or chopped hazelnuts or grated coconut

Per slice:

P: 4 g, F: 14 g, C: 35 g, kJ: 1177, kcal: 281, CU: 3.0

1 Grease the baking sheet. Preheat the oven: Top/bottom heat: about 180 °C/350 °F (Gas mark 4) Fan oven: about 160 °C/325 °F (Gas mark 3)

2 To make the sponge mixture, mix together the flour and baking powder in a mixing bowl. Add all the other ingredients and mix everything with a hand-mixer with whisk attachment, first briefly on the lowest setting, then on the highest setting for about 2 minutes until you obtain a smooth, homogeneous mixture.

3 Spread the sponge mixture on the baking sheet and smooth flat. Put the baking sheet on the middle shelf in the preheated oven and blind-bake for about 10 minutes.

4 To make the topping, melt the butter with the sugar in a pan. Stir in the almonds, hazelnuts or coconut (photograph 1). Now pour this mixture onto the blind-baked sponge and spread it evenly over it (photograph 2). Put the baking sheet back in the preheated oven and bake for another 15 minutes.

5 Put the cake together with the baking sheet on a cake rack and leave to cool.

TIP » You can use whipping cream instead of buttermilk. Recipe variation: To make a mandarin orange-buttermilk cake (photograph 3), thoroughly drain a 1 large tin of mandarin oranges (drained weight 480 g/19 oz) in a sieve. Make only half the amount of topping and then spread the mandarins and topping on the blind-baked sponge. Bake the cake for another 15 minutes as indicated in the recipe.

PROBLEM

» To prevent the mixing bowl from sliding about: if the mixing bowl does not have a rubber ring on its base, put a damp cloth under the bowl while mixing the ingredients. This will keep the mixing bowl steady.