Gooseberry crumble cake

Name: Gooseberry crumble cake
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 150 g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 150 g Cooks’ Ingredients Cooking Gooseberries or Waitrose Dessert Gooseberries; 150 g caster sugar, plus 2 tsp; 2 large free range eggs; ½ tsp vanilla bean paste; 1 tbsp whole milk; 150 g plain flour; 1¼ tsp baking powder; ½ tsp fine sea salt

At their best right now, gooseberries are a hyper-seasonal British gem. Their tart, tangy flavour works brilliantly in all sorts of bakes.

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Vegetarian

Serves8
CourseCake
Prepare25 mins
Cook55 mins
Total time1 hr 20 mins
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150g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
150g Cooks’ Ingredients Cooking Gooseberries or Waitrose Dessert Gooseberries
150g caster sugar, plus 2 tsp
2 large free range eggs
½ tsp vanilla bean paste
1 tbsp whole milk
150g plain flour
1¼ tsp baking powder
½ tsp fine sea salt

Crumble

90g plain flour
90g caster sugar
70g unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small cubes
50g pecans, finely chopped

Start by making the crumble. Put the flour, sugar, butter and a pinch of salt in a mixing bowl. Rub the mixture together with your fingertips until all the butter is mixed in and you have a sandy, slightly clumpy mixture. Mix in the pecans, then chill.
Preheat the oven to 180ºC, gas mark 4; grease a 20cm loose-bottomed, round, deep cake tin and line with baking parchment. Toss the gooseberries with 2 tsp sugar, then set aside. In a large mixing bowl, use an electric hand mixer to beat the butter and 150g sugar for 2 minutes, until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then mix in the vanilla and milk. Add the flour, baking powder and salt; mix together on the lowest speed until just combined.
Scrape the mixture into the cake tin and spread out evenly. Scatter over the gooseberries. Top with the crumble, covering a little more lightly towards the centre of the cake. Bake for 50-55 minutes, until golden and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out just clean. Cool completely in the tin.