FRESH FIG AND ALMOND CAKE
 
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Recipe type: Cake
Serves: 8-10 people
Ingredients
  • 200 g butter (room temp)
  • 150 g caster sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 180 g ground almonds
  • 100 g flour
  • 100 g yoghurt
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1-2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 lemon zest
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  • TO FINISH
  • fresh figs (halved or quartered)
  • 1 Tbs caster sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/gas mark 6. Butter and flour a 24cm cake tin and line the bottom with baking parchment.
  2. Beat butter and sugar with an electric whisk until pale and fluffy.
  3. Add in the eggs one at a time, whisking well after each addition.
  4. Mix ground almonds, flour and salt and fold into the batter.
  5. Mix in the yoghurt, lemon zest and vanilla extract.
  6. Pour batter into the cake tin and smooth the top. Arrange the figs without pressing too much and sprinkle with a Tbs of sugar.
  7. Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven then reduce the temperature to 170C/340F/gas mark 3 and bake for a further 40-45 minutes.
  8. Remove the cake from the oven and let cool before taking it out of the tin.
Notes
I didn't give an exact amount for the figs but don't be shy, the more the better.

In the original recipe it is served with the addition of warm syrupy figs and a nice big dollop of greek yoghurt. I didn't have enough figs this time but I'll definitely give it a try next time.
Recipe by HatiBon English at https://www.hatibon.com/blog/2017/10/fresh-fig-almond-cake/