Basic Fruit Tea Cake
This is a basic tea cake recipe, featuring a crumble topping. It is studded with blackberries, but you can use almost any fruit here - raspberries, cherries, strawberries, etc. If the fruit is large, chop it before adding to the cake. Lovely with a cuppa!
Ingredients
Serves: 9
- 250g plain flour
- 300g caster sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 150g margarine
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 150ml milk
- 1 cup blackberries
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:25min ›
Ready in:35min
- Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease and flour a 23cm square tin.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Rub in margarine until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside 10 tablespoons of the crumb mixture to be used as a topping for the cake. Mix eggs and milk together and then blend into remaining mixture in bowl.
- Spread cake mixture into prepared tin. Sprinkle blackberries evenly over the top. Sprinkle reserved crumb mixture over fruit.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
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Reviews in English (105)
I have made this cake several times and served it as a dessert. It is so easy to make & an absolute hit with family and friends! About to make it again today - may try homegrown rhubarb! - 19 Jul 2013
this is the second time ive made this cake , but i changed the castor sugar to light brown fine sugar , i added nuts to the crumble topping and used fresh pineaple finley chopped , delicious - 09 Dec 2012
this cake went down a treat I used frozen wild strawberries that i had piked in the summer , it took a little longer to cook , but absolutely fabulous - 04 Dec 2012
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