This year I’ll be joining in with the Great Blogger Bake Off which essentially involves baking along with the series each week. This week I’ve made mini Cherry and Almond cakes, little moist bundt cakes full of sweet glace cherries topped with a lemon icing with cherries and toasted almonds. I’m hoping the lovely Jenny over at Mummy Mishaps will give me extra brownie points for attempting both the cherry and almond cake (technical challenge) and ‘mini’ cakes (showstopper) in one bake. You can find the rest of this weeks bakes over here.
Cherry and Almond Cakes
- 75g glace cherries
- 75g self raising flour
- 60g soften butter
- 60g caster sugar
- 15g ground almonds
- 1 egg
These quantities make about 6-8 mini cakes depending on your silicon molds. I’ve had mine for a few years now but you can find similar here.
- Preheat the oven to 160°c and consider flouring the inside of your molds if they have an intricate pattern just to be on the safe side.
- Chop the cherries into quite small pieces then rinse and dry them on kitchen paper.
- Cream together the butter and sugar then beat in the egg.
- Set aside a few of the cherries for decoration later and sprinkle the rest in a little of the flour to coat them.
- Add the rest of the flour and the almonds to the wet mixture to form a fairly stiff batter and finally fold in the cherries until they are distributed evenly.
- Spoon into the molds and bake for around 12 minutes.
- Leave to cool for only a few minutes before turning them out warm to have the best chance of maintaining the mold pattern.
I made a straightforward glace icing with around 100g of icing sugar made up to the right consistency with lemon juice and then topped them with cherries and toasted almonds.
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DANIELLE VEDMORE says
Oooh yum! They look great! I do love glace cherries! Ive got everything but the bundt moulds! On my shopping list!
They are definitely worth it, everything is more fun in miniature!
These sound gorgeous, I love lemon & I bet the cherries go perfectly! 🙂
Jess xo
Thanks Jess, I do think the lemon icing stops the whole thing being too sweet so you get a good balance.
Wow these look delicious, glace cherries are heaven but I need to get used to almond I am not a HUGE fan xxx
These look so cute!
i am sooooo impressed Cat, seriously they are super sweet and look so pretty, yum! x
thanks for linking up x
These look lovely with some of my favourite flavours #recipeoftheweek
Those look wonderful, must try baking some mini bundts!
These look lovely! I love the idea of mini bundt cakes 🙂 x
They are so adorable! I wouldn’t want to actually eat them, they’re too pretty 😉
Love them! Everything is better in miniature 🙂
They look amazing!
They look fab – cute! #recipeoftheweek
They look so cute! And yummy 🙂 Thanks so much for linking up with #recipeoftheweek. Sorry I was particularly slow getting over for this one. I’ve pinned it to my food board and a tweet will go out shortly 🙂
Oh they look DEVINE