So, having taken inspiration from Jack Monroe and her A to Z of leftovers blog posting (link in case you need it: https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2016/02/08/dont-throw-that-away-an-a-z-of-leftovers-tired-veg-etc-and-what-to-do-with-them/), I had half a dozen plums left over and, after a plum a day in his lunch box, my son was fed-up with them.
I made a cake! 'cos we all love cake :-)
I even made a note of the ingredients - see, i'm getting better at this lark
150g butter
150g caster sugar
drop vanilla essence
3 medium eggs
250g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
4 tbsp milk
plums
for icing:
icing sugar, 100g desicated cocnut and pink food colouring
1. I melted the butter in the microwave and sliced the plums
2. added the flour, sugar into a bowl ; stir-in the melted butter, eggs, milk, baking powder & vanilla and mixed to make a cake batter
3. spread 1/2 into a cake pan - I used my loaf pan
4. scatter over the sliced plums and topped with the remaining cake batter
I baked in the oven, at 180 deg C for around 30 minutes - my oven, here in Singapore, is not known for being reliable so I checked it after 20 minutes, inserted a tooth pick and it didn't come out clean so I left it for another 10 minutes and checked it again.
After it had cooled, I made some icing with a drop or so of pink food colouring, poured it over the cake and sprinkled on the coconut. The plums went all jammy:
and my son had it with cream 😃
because this is Singapore, you can get anything, pretty much, even if you have to travel to get it. So, I'm lucky to have a local supermarket that sells Waitrose products so am able to get natural food colouring and vanilla essence - most products sold here are full of preservatives and bad stuff!
Singapore hasn't fully embraced the whole organic, natural ingredients idea in their food
