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Gooseberry cake

• Adam Bush

Published: June 15, 2019 at 10:36 AM

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Serves 10

Easy

Total time: 1 hr and 45 mins

+ cooling

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Make the most of British summer berries in this fruity gooseberry cake, lifted with a sweet elderflower drizzle

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Ingredients

Nutrition

• 300g gooseberries

  fresh or frozen, topped and tailed

• 325g caster sugar

• 200g plain flour

• 2 tsp baking powder

• 100g ground almonds

• 4 tbsp elderflower cordial

• 100ml natural yogurt

  plus extra to serve

• 4 eggs

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 150ml olive oil

• to serve greek yogurt or crème fraîche

ELDERFLOWER SYRUP

• 50g caster sugar
• 3 tbsp elderflower cordial

Nutrition: per serving

• kcal503
• fat23.2g
• saturates3.4g
• carbs64.5g
• sugars48.6g
• fibre1.8g
• protein8.1g
• salt0.4g

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Method

• step 1

  To make the elderflower syrup, put the sugar and 75ml water in a pan. Slowly bring to the boil then simmer for 5 minutes until thickened slightly. Stir in the cordial and cool.

• step 2

  Toss the gooseberries with 50g of the caster sugar and leave to sit while you make the cake.

• step 3

  Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 and line the base and sides of a deep 23cm springform cake tin with baking paper. Mix together the flour, baking powder, ground almonds and a pinch of salt in a bowl.

• step 4

  In a separate bowl, whisk together the rest of the caster sugar, elderflower cordial, yogurt, eggs and vanilla extract. Gradually whisk in the dry ingredients to form a smooth batter. Fold in the olive oil.

• step 5

  Scrape the batter into the prepared tin then spoon the sugary gooseberries all over the top, pressing gently to submerge. Bake for 1 hour (covering with foil after 40 minutes to avoid it getting too dark) until golden and risen, and a skewer pushed into the centre comes out clean. Skewer the cake all over while still warm and spoon over 5 tbsp of the elderflower syrup. Cool in the tin until just warm then serve with greek yogurt or crème fraîche and the rest of the syrup.

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Authors

Adam BushDeputy food editor

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