Plum and Almond Cake

As I have mentioned I don't like to waste. I don't like to throw things out but I'm really bad at remembering that I have them. So to the baking! I had some plums, and nothing to do with them. They were approaching the point of no return and had to be used. After searching all my books and nothing tickling my fancy, I had to go back to my old standby of google. It wasnt actually that helpful. I was close to giving up and just making something up but finally the internet prevailed! It produced a Plum and Almond cake. Thinking it would be simple I just got on with it. First simple enough, second still fine, third was spot on. However the fourth was to be a slight hiccup. Not reading this step meant that I placed all my plums and then put the almonds on top instead of doing it the other way around! Woops! Luckly this wasn't deprimental to the cake. I was quite interested to see the results of the glaze being baked into the cake, It wasn't something I had ever done before and worked well.

As you can see I still had plums left, I didn't consider the size of the plums in comparison to cake tin.

http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/511830