Cherry dots cake

With the cherries I made on the other day (see my lovely Homemade cherry in syrup), I made cherry cake. And I decided to call it Cherry dots cake because the cherries in it looks like cherry dots (well, tell me it's not a very creative name, is it... )

A moist and hearty texture is a great company with afternoon tea, or beer in today's case;) Thanks to Brian and Andy for tasting this dotted cake in the pub.

It's an extremely easy recipe but tastes great! You can of course use a tinned cherry too.

Ingredients;

Flour 180g

Almond powder 50g

Butter 100g

Sugar 100g

Egg 2

Cherries in syrup 150g

1. Melt butter. Pre-heat the oven to 180º

2. Beat egg and sugar until it's fluffy.

3. Add 1 and 2 tbsp cherry syrup into 2, and mix well.

4. Fold flour and almond powder into 3.

5. Fold cherries into 4.

6. Pour 5 in a cake tin. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 50 minutes.

Homemade cherry in syrup

There is a vegs & fruits stand just down the road and lots of cherries there were looking at me on the other day. Yesterday, I looked at them left in the fridge looking bit soft and sad...;( So, I turned them into cute shiny cherries in syrup.

It's really easy to make when you have a cherry stoner (I use OXO Good Grips Cherry/Olive Pitter, which is simply amazing...). Just pop pop and pop, then cook with sugar and wine, done. Great with ice cream, pancakes, cupcakes, and now I'm thinking to make a cheesecake with them. Hummm, it'd be nice:)


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