Amaretti and Peach Cake
I'm back to using up things lurking in my cupboard, and this time it's some Amaretti biscuits. I bought some peaches a while ago and they're just ripe, so decided to use them too as peaches and almonds are a great combination. To reinforce the almond flavour I added some chopped almonds. The cake makes a nice dessert or a nice addition to the afternoon cuppa. Preheat oven 180C/gas4 and grease a 20cm springform cake tin. Skin and remove the stones from 2 peaches [or you could use tinned]. Chop one into chunks and slice the other. Whisk together 250ml plain yoghurt [not low fat] with 1 tspn bicarbonate of soda. In another bowl sift together 200g plain flour and 11/2 tspn baking powder. Beat together [yes I know it's a lot of bowls!] 115g butter and 200g sugar then add 2 eggs one at a time. Add 1 tspn vanilla extract to the batter. Add half the flour mixture then half the yoghurt mix then the rest of the flour mixture and the yoghurt mix. Carefully fold in the p...