Raspberry and nectarine crumble cake

It's worth taking the extra time to add the crumble topping to this fruity raspberry and nectarine cake - you'll be rewarded with a most delicious dessert or afternoon tea.

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup unsalted butter

    softened

  • 200g unsalted butter

    softened

  • ¾ cup caster sugar

  • 195g caster sugar

  • 2 eggs

  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

  • 2 tsp baking powder

  • 2 cups plain flour

  • 300g plain flour

  • ¾ cup milk

  • ¾ cup milk

  • 1 cup raspberries

  • 3 yellow nectarines

    peeled and sliced

  • ¼ cup butter

    chilled

  • 60g butter

    chilled

  • ½ cup plain flour

  • 75g plain flour

  • ¼ cup brown sugar

  • 45g brown sugar

  • ⅓ cup rolled oats

Allergy Advice

Contains Dairy

Contains Eggs

Contains Gluten

Equipment

  • 1 oven
  • 1 springform cake tin
  • 1 bowl
  • 1 skewer

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Grease and line a 23cm springform cake tin.
  2. Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well between each. Fold through vanilla, baking powder, flour and milk. Stir through fruit. Pour into prepared tin, distributing evenly.
  3. In a smaller bowl, rub butter into flour until it resembles breadcrumbs. Stir through sugar and oats. Sprinkle this mixture evenly over the cake batter.
  4. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

Notes

Tip
If you find the cake is browning too quickly, cover with a piece of aluminium foil.
Variation
Frozen raspberries are fine in this recipe. If nectarines are out of season, you can replace them with an equivalent amount of tinned peaches.

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