Almond Cake with Blue Cheese and Figs

Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 225gms butter
• 285gms caster sugar
• zest of 1 lemon
• 4 eggs
• 230gms ground almonds
• 90gms flour
• dried Turkish figs and blue cheese to serve

Method

Preheat the oven to 175°C

Butter and paper the bottom of a 28cm diameter cake tin. Cream the butter, sugar and zest until pale and thick. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each. Stir in the almonds and flour and pour the mixture into the tin. Place in the oven and bake 30-40 minutes until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.

Remove from the oven, cool, remove from the tin and serve in wedges with dried Turkish figs and your favourite blue cheese.