Recipes/Pink grapefruit and yuzu drizzle cake

Pink grapefruit and yuzu drizzle cake

A lovely cake to have on the kitchen counter, to slice and eat with a cup of tea on the days after Christmas when something simpler is called for. Yuzu juice adds a beautiful fragrance and complements the grapefruit so well. The fresh juice is difficult to come by, but the bottled variety is available in large supermarkets and online, and tastes just as good in this cake

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A traditional Bakewell tart consists of a pastry shell filled with jam and almond cream filling, finished with a layer of icing and a cherry on top. My version here replaces the jam layer with fresh plums for brightness and acidity. A little raising agent in the rich nutty filling lightens the crumb, while the layer of white icing has been replaced by a light dusting of icing sugar. Cut into bars, this is a hand-held, portable cake to take with you on a long drive, to a picnic or to pack into a lunchbox, but it’s equally good plated for dessert and served with cream.