Cherry Almond Cake

Name: Cherry Almond Cake
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 250 g unsalted butter; 500 g castor sugar; 6 large (61 g) eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla essence; 400 g plain flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 200 g ground blanched almonds; 185 g crème fraîche or sour cream; 185 g crème fraîche or sour cream; 400 g strained Preserved Cherries

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Paramount Cooking

By Christine Manfield

Published 1995

About

This cake features regularly on the Store menu when cherries abound and stays there until the cherry preserves have been used and we have to wait for the next season. It is a very moist cake and keeps well for 3 days in a sealed container.

Ingredients

250 g unsalted butter
500 g castor sugar
6 large (

Oceania
Australia
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Cream the butter and sugar in an electric mixer until pale and creamy. With the beaters at high speed, add the eggs, one at a time, then the vanilla.
Sift the flour and baking powder and add to the egg mixture with the