Big Cakes: Cherry and Marzipan Cake

Name: Big Cakes: Cherry and Marzipan Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 120 g marzipan; 2 tbsp demerara sugar; ½ tsp baking powder; zest of 1 unwaxed lemon, finely grated, plus 2 tbsp lemon juice; 225 g golden caster sugar; 225 g unsalted butter, softened, plus more for the tin; 200 g whole undyed glacé cherries; 115 g ground almonds; 4 eggs, lightly beaten; 225 g self-raising flour

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

Use the best cherries you can find. If you can get glacé sour cherries (I used some from Poland), then do try them - they elevate this recipe into something very special - though it does still taste great with normal glacé cherries. The layer of marzipan melts into the sponge.

Ingredients

225 g unsalted butter, softened, plus more for the tin
200 g whole undyed glacé cherries
225

Cake
Vegetarian
Baking

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C/fan 160°C/340°F/gas mark 3½. Butter a 30 × 11 × 6.5cm loaf tin, or a 23cm round cake tin, and line the base with baking parchment.

Rinse and completely dry the cherries on kitchen towel. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl and s