Tuesday 6 November 2012

Orange, Cherry and Cranberry Crumble Cake


This is a great alternative to a Christmas pudding and tastes great warmed with Crème Fraiche!



For my cake i have used a 22cm cake tin which easily cuts into 14 generous slices!

For the Sponge:
·       5 medium eggs
·       300g Light brown sugar
·       330g Stork butter
·       350g self raising flour
·       60g dried cranberries
·       Zest of 3 large oranges
·       120g of red currants


For the crumble:
·       100g unsalted butter
·       100g dark brown sugar
·       2 tsp cinnamon
·       150g plain flour
·       100g toasted and finely chopped hazelnuts
·       1 Pot of cherry compote or delicious cherry jam


1.      Start by making the crumble by melting the unsalted butter and add it to; the dark brown sugar, cinnamon, plain flour and hazelnuts. Mix this with your fingers until crumble consistency, put this aside for later.

2.     Take the red currants and cook on a low heat with 2tbsp of brown sugar for 10 minutes or until softened and leave to cool.

3.      For the sponge mixture cream together the stork and light brown sugar then slowly add 3 tbsp of self raising and 1 egg and gently mix into the butter and sugar. Repeat this process until all the eggs and flour has been used.

4.     Add to this mixture the dried cranberries, 60g of your red currants and the orange zest to your sponge mixture
5.      Grease and line your tin with baking parchment and assemble a layer in the bottom of your tin using 1/3 of your crumble mixture. Then add half of your sponge mixture and another layer of crumble on top of the sponge mixture using another third of your crumble mix. Finally add the rest of your sponge mixture and leave to cook in a preheated oven at 165° for 30 minutes.

6.     After 30 minutes add a layer of the cherry compote, then the remaining crumble mix and return it to the oven for a further 55 minutes. If your crumble topping looks like it is catching cover your tin with a sheet of tin foil.








7.     Once removed from the oven leave to cool and then decorate with remaining red currants. 



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