Cherry Cake | Roving Haggis
🏴 CHERRY LOAF CAKE 🏴
The Scots love a plain-ish loaf cake - and I am one of them. Nothing nicer for me than a nice plain piece of cake, not too sweet, a bit of texture, not over complicated - breakfast cake even - I am never hungry ion the morning, but a wee slice of plain-ish cake and my morning coffee - I’m happy! I used natural glacé cherries here, but if you like those bright red ones of my youth then go for it!
200g Glacé cherries
50g toasted pine kernels or almond slivers
Zest and juice of 1 lemon
100g ground almonds
200g plain flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
175g butter
175g caster sugar
3 large eggs (I used 4 smaller ones)
Loaf tin 24 x 13 x 6cm (9”x5”x2.5”)
Rinse cherries under the tap so they are not sticky, dry off and cut all in half. Mix through the ground almonds with the pine kernels and lemon zest till everything is well coated.
Mix the baking powder through the flour. Cream the butter and sugar with an electric whisk. Add one egg and a bit of flour and incorporate. Keep alternating egg and flour in til all is combined. Pour in the lemon juice and beat through. Pour in the almond and cherry mix and fold through until well mixed together. Line a loaf tin and fill with the mixture, carefully pushing to the edges and smoothing out the top. Sprinkle with Demerara sugar, and bake at 160c for and hour 15 minutes to an hour and a half. Keep an eye on it and test with a skewer after an hour or so. Let it cool on a wire rack and slice when cooler, a wee bit warm is delicious!
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