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Sunday 9 October 2011

Plum & Oat Madeira Cake



A while ago I bought a bag of oatmeal from the local health food shop to make oatcakes. I've recently being having a freezer and cupboard purge with the vow of using up things before they get forgotten forever in a dark corner. I could see that the oatmeal could become one of those cupboard lurkers so I had a little look on the Internet to see what oatmeal containing cakes it threw up. It turned out to be a bit of a trawl through several pages of various porridge recipes before I came across this cake recipe. I'm a big porridge fan (I've just come back from my parents with a nice supply of stewed windfall apples to go with said breakfast) but I prefer the jumbo oats in it rather than oatmeal. It was the Waitrose website that
featured this take on a Madeira cake. It smelt delicious while it was baking and I was pleased that the very under ripe plums I used tasted great once cooked. The jury however is out on this cake as a whole. In all fairness the original recipe calls for medium oatmeal and mine was coarse so this probably has made a difference - you can really taste little oaty bursts while eating it which are pleasant but slightly odd. It is not disimilar to a polenta cake but not quite as moist and refined. It was just fine with a cup of afternoon tea but Mr CB won't be taking it to my usual testers at his office as he said he didn't think they'd like it very much. Well I did marry him for his honesty!




    7 comments:

    1. This looks great! I am imagining a slice of it warm with custard. mmmmmm! I too bought oatmeal for making oatcakes and a few months later it is still sitting there waiting. I did make some staffordshire oatcakes, but that was with a different grade of oatmeal.

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    2. This cake looks really lovely and could even be considered a little bit healthy! Thats a job i need to do - clear out my own presses, I never know what I might find!

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    3. This cake look delicious and amazing, love it Gloria

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    4. Ha Ha - aren't other halves brutal with their honesty at times!! Love the big chunks of plum in it and it looks the perfect seasonal bake to me.

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    5. Wow looks great, perfect for autumn.

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    6. Oh, I'll bet this is delicious! I love oats and I love plumbs, what a great combination! Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe!

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