The French savoury cake, or “cake salé”, is a wonderfully simple genre — a quick-bread style loaf studded with bold ingredients. Here, tangy blue cheese and sweet figs make for a striking combination.
Ingredients
- 150 g flour
- 1 sachet baking powder
- 3 eggs
- 100 ml sunflower oil
- 125 ml milk
- 150 g blue cheese, cubed
- 4 fresh or dried figs, chopped
- 100 g grated Gruyère
Instructions
- Whisk the eggs with the oil and milk.
- Fold in the flour and baking powder until just combined.
- Gently stir in the blue cheese, figs and Gruyère.
- Pour into a greased loaf tin.
- Bake at 180°C (350°F) for 45 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.
Serve in slices, warm or at room temperature, as an aperitif nibble or light starter.
