RASPBERRY ALMOND MIDI-CAKE, wallet-friendly, quick & easy, oven option

Raspberries, almonds and coconut = a summery bake for 1 (or 2)... 

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 Healthily indulgent Raspberry Almond Cake for 1 (recipe multiplies nicely)

If you're hitting the books, this gorgeous little raspberry sponge will provide a lovely break.  It will satisfy sweet cravings  - but only in a non-indulgent quantity.  

It's great for using up fresh raspberries; or if you're still hesitant to use up your flour during Lockdown/s and love ground almonds. 

Despite it's size, the cake is delicately textured, not at all dry, and smells irresistibly of hot raspberries and orange. 

There is even a healthy element with wholemeal flour for fibre and an option for less sugar.  

Like all air-fryer cakes, it took just 10 minutes to prep and under 20 mins to cook.  

The recipe is intended for one, mind.  Definitely double it if you're treating two.


Cost: not much
Feeds: 1

Ingreds:
   4 rounded tbsp plain flour
   1 rounded tbsp wholemeal flour
   1/2 tsp baking powder
   min 1-max 2 tbsp sugar
   1 rounded tbsp ground almonds
   1 room temperature egg
   1 tbsp orange juice
   zest of half an orange
   30gm/1 generous oz soft butter
   1/2 tsp orange essence (vanilla will also do)

   30 gm/small handful fresh raspberries

   Topping: icing sugar or dried unsweetened coconut

Method:

1. Preheat air fryer to 155 or oven to 180c/350f
   
2. Lightly butter a 6inch/15cm pan; cut out a circle of greaseproof paper to fit the pan and place (ink side down) in the base 
3. Place all ingreds apart from raspberries in the order given in a mixing bowl; beat well with electric beaters or a whisk
4. Pour or scrape into the pan; spread to the edges with a spatula, leaving a depression in the middle; push berries into the top of the batter
5. Cook 15-18 mins in the air fryer; 20-25 mins in oven
6. Serve lightly dusted with icing sugar or unsweetened dried coconut

Tips:

• Don't have an air fryer?  Bake in a preheated 180c/350f oven 20-25 mins or until a toothpick comes out clean
• A larger cake is not suitable for an air fryer: triple ingredients and bake in a  7"x 10"/18cm x 26 cm rectangle or 9"/18 cm square/round, 45-50 mins at 180c/350f/gas 4.  
• Replace raspberries with blackberries 

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This recipe has been developed by B  Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises and may not be reproduced, in any form, without the author's written permission.