Name: Polenta cake with berries
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 75 min
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: Bake
Ingredients: 200 g butter; 215 ml castor sugar; 3 eggs; 100 g almonds ground; 200 ml flour cake; 5 ml vanilla essence; lemons zest only; 1 cup maize meal fine polenta; 2.5 ml Baking powder; 30 ml milk; 250 g mixed berries to garnish; 200 ml crème fraîche to serve

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Ingredients (12)

200 g	butter
215 ml	castor sugar
3	eggs
100 g	almonds — ground
200 ml	flour — cake
5 ml	vanilla — essence
	lemons — zest only
1 cup	maize meal — fine polenta
2.5 ml	Baking powder
30 ml	milk
250 g	mixed berries — to garnish
200 ml	crème fraîche — to serve

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Method:

Preheat the oven to 180C. Line & grease a 20cm spring form cake tin.

Place the butter and the sugar in a large bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well.

Stir in the ground almonds, cake flour, vanilla, zest, polenta and baking powder Add a splash of milk – the mixture should be a soft dropping consistency.

Pour this mixture into the baking tin, and place in the oven. Bake for 55mins to 1 hour, until the cake is golden brown. Insert a skewer into the centre, if it comes out clean the cake is done.

Allow the cake to cool.

Serve the cake with berries and crème fraiche.

Reprinted with permission of Sasko.