Pre-heat your oven to 180c

Assemble your ingredients

Prepare your cake tin with melted butter

Line your cake tin with baking paper

Brush any remaining melted butter on the baking paper base

Sprinkle with the brown sugar

Split the plums and remove the seeds

Arrange the plums, skin side down, on the brown sugar. Put the cake tin aside while you prepare the cake batter

In your electric mixer, with paddle attachment, add the 125g butter, vanilla and caster sugar

Mix these ingredients on medium speed until creamy – about 3 minutes

Add the eggs one at a time. Allow to incorporate before adding the next egg. Clean the sides of the bowl with a spatula between eggs

Mix the almond meal and flour together

On low speed, mix in the flour and almond meal

You will end up with a very thick cake batter.

Carefully pour the batter over the plums. Gently cover the plums

Bake in your oven for 45 -50 minutes – until the cake has a little ‘spring’ when pressed

When cooked, remove from the oven and let stand for 15 – 20 minutes

Turn the cake out onto a plate and carefully remove any baking paper if still attached

Serve warm with ice cream or for afternoon tea with whipped cream