Cherry Almond Cake

Milo’s colleagues from Norway were down sometime last week, and we baked this cake for them. They enjoyed it with a cup of black coffee. Photo courtesy Oddlaug 🙂

This is Neeta Mehta’s recipe attempted by us.

Ingredients –

1 cup All Purpose Flour/Maida,

1 tsp Baking powder,

1/2 cup Glazed Cherries cut into round slices,

1/2 cup Almonds chopped,

3/4th cup powdered sugar,

2 Eggs,

1/2 cup oil (vegetable/sunflower or any oil that does not smell),

1/2 tsp Almond essence (I used mixed fruit essence)

Method –

Sift together flour and baking powder and keep aside.

Beat together powdered sugar and eggs till frothy.

Add oil and beat it for a while.

Add the flour to the egg batter and mix well.

Add the essence, chopped cherries and almond and mix well again.Keep a few cherries and almond to put on top of the cake batter. The cake batter for this cake is quite thick.

Pour into a greased tin and bake in a preheated oven (175 degree centigrade) till a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

If the top is browning too quickly,loosely cover the top with a foil.

Remove from oven,let it cool for 10 minutes and then remove to a wire rack.

Slice and serve.

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