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 CHERRY AND ALMOND CAKE

 

Ingredients:

• Maida Flour - 500gm 
• Maida flour -1 tbsp
  
• Butter Butter - 400 gm 
• Egg - 9 (beaten)
• Baking powder - 3 tsp
• Castor sugar - 5 tbsp
• Orange Juice - 4 tbsp
• Almond Essence - 3 tsp
• Cherries - 2 cups (halve) 

For Cake Decoration:

• Icing sugar - 300 gm(sifted)
• Flaked Almonds - 5 tbsp 
• Fresh Cherries - 20

Recipe Direction:

• Preheat the oven to 180°C at convention. Grease a cake dish with butter and keep aside. Beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy and light.
• Stir flour and baking powder together and beat the eggs, Now add beaten egg and flour to the sugar- butter mixture, also adding the orange juice.
• Mix evenly till thick and creamy. Toss the glaceed cherries in the extra 1tbsp flour and flod into the batter. Add almond essence.
• Spoon into the prepared cake dish and bake at 180°C for 80 minutes. When ready, leave to cool for 20 minutes and then remove on to a cooling rack.

 For Decoration:

• Mix icing sugar with one tbsp of water. 
• Spread the Flaked almonds and decorate with the fresh cherries over the top of the cake. 
• Sprinkle the icing sugar over the cake to decorate.