About the Recipe
This cake is one of our favourites, moist, light and airy with a spongy texture, and has a burst of almond flavour. The cherries make this cake super elegant and tasty. Gets better if you can resist for a day or two, but many find that hard.
Ingredients
200g Glacé Cherries
175g Unsalted Butter, at room temperature
175g Golden Caster Sugar
3 large Eggs, whisked lightly
175g Plain Flour
0.5 Tsp Baking Powder
75g Ground Almonds
A few drops Almond Extract
1 dessertspoon Milk
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 180 C
​Pat Cherries dry with kitchen paper, then slice each one in half
For the cake, cream the butter and sugar together until light, pale and fluffy
Gradually beat in the whisked eggs a little at a time
Mix the flour and baking powder together, and carefully fold this into the creamed mixture using a metal spoon
Toss two thirds of the cherries together with the ground almonds and carefully fold these into the cake, adding one or two drops of almond extract and the milk.
Spoon the cake mix into the prepared tin, level off the top with the back of a spoon, then sprinkle over the remaining third of the cherries and poke them just under the surface with a teaspoon
Bake the cake near the centre of the oven for 50 minutes, then cover with foil and continue cooking for a further 10 minutes, or until the centre is springy to touch.
Cool the cake in the tin for 15 minutes before turning it out onto a wire rack to cool.