132: A wonderfully moist, fresh plum cake, p287

'Wonderfully moist' - ha - sticky messy slodge 'o' cake this was - perhaps not the best one to take into work... We ended up eating it with spoons :) But it was lovely, if a little gooey and more like a cakey crumble. The almonds, as ever, gave the cakey part a nutty, rich texture, and the walnuts worked better than I thought they would - I'm not a big fan of lumps of nut floating around in cake. The English plums I got at the weekend were just right - a little sweet, but also a little tart - but made it very gloopy on top. Definitely took longer than 45mins to cook, more like 1hr 10mins and because of the gooey plumminess on top had to have faith that it was cooked underneath. Phew...