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Get your little helpers on board this Valentine’s Day!

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Prep: 20 minutes electric hand whisk. Dice 2 of the plums
Cook: 1 hour 10 minutes and stir into the mixture.
3 Spoon into the tin and level the
Makes: 8 portions
surface. Slice the remaining plums Ingredients
and arrange on top. Sprinkle with ● 175g butter, almonds
Directions flaked almonds. softened ●1½tspalmond
1 Preheat the oven to 160˚C/ 4 Bake for 1 hour 10 minutes until well ● 150g caster extract
300˚F/gas mark 2. Grease and line risen and firm to the touch in the middle. sugar ● 4 large plums
the base of a heart-shaped baking Leave to cool slightly. ● 3 large eggs ● 25g flaked
tin (roughly 20cm). 5 Meanwhile, heat the jam in a pan ● 150g self-raising almonds
2 Measure the butter, sugar, eggs, over a low heat until loosened, to create flour ● 1 tbsp raspberry
flour, ground almonds and almond a glaze. Brush the glaze over the top ● 75g ground or plum jam
extract into a bowl. Whisk using an of the cake to serve.

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