Rich and odorous.. cake!

Cakes are right, cakes are always good and they make people feel better. This is a huge cake, it's a perfect one for the end of summer or beginning of autumn, and it feels like a Big Hug of a friend.

For this cake, you need a blender. I made it without one, and it was a bit of a torture. On the other hand, there is always a place for a deed in everyday life. So, the cake is full of fruits and nuts and it's very nutritious. I made it just with plums but the original receipt recommends to take 3-4 kinds of fruits (pears, apricots, plums, peaches, better - no apples), 2-3 of each. Cut fruits in big pieces. Warm up the oven to 180C.

Mix 200 g of margarine (or butter, if you prefer) with 1.5 cups of sugar and vanilla, cinnamon and muscat till you have a homogeneous mass. One by one, add 3 eggs. Don't add the next egg before the previous one is not united with the whole mass in the proud flight of the uniform happiness. Prepare 350 g of sifted flour with baking powder and a teaspoonful of salt and 250 ml of buttermilk (or 1 cup of milk with a tablespoonful of lemon juice). Add some flour to the dough and mix then add some buttermilk and mix, and so on till you finish all the flour and buttermilk. The dough should be homogeneous and quite liquid.

Put half of the dough in the form (make sure you've placed there the backing paper or applied some butter on it) and distribute all the fruits there. Put the rest of the dough on top and finish the composition with nuts. I used the mixture of walnuts, pecan, hazelnuts and cashew. Any of them would do. Put the cake in the oven at least for 50 min. After that, check if it's ready with a toothpick or a dry knife. When it comes out of the cake dry it means the cake is ready. It took me about 1.5 hours to bake it, so after 40 minutes I've covered the cake with foil in order not to let the nuts burn (also, it would be a good idea to remove the "peal" from hazelnuts).