CHERRY BAKEWELL LOAF CAKE

Cherry bakewell loaf cake is an easy and delicious budget cake with all the flavours of a bakewell tart. Topped with a layer of icing sugar it’s perfect for sharing with friends.

So now that it’s over let’s relax a little and enjoy some relatively healthy cherry cake!

Ingredients

For the loaf cake :-

• 250 g self raising flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 100 g golden caster sugar
• 85 g ground almonds
• 150 g glace cherries
• 2 eggs lightly beaten
• 50 ml sunflower oil
• 175 ml skimmed milk

For the topping :-

• 200 g icing sugar
• 3 tbsp water
• 2 tbsp flaked almonds

Instructions

Make the loaf cake :-

• Preheat oven to 180C/350F and grease a 20cm x 12.5cm / 8” x 5” loaf tin.
• Sift all of the dry ingredients, the flour, baking powder, caster sugar, ground almonds and glace cherries into a large mixing bowl.
• In a separate bowl, add the wet ingredients the eggs, oil and milk. Mix together.
• Gradually pour the wet ingredients into the larger bowl with the dry ingredients. Fold all of the ingredients together either using a spatula.
• Pour cake mixture into loaf tin and bake for 35 - 40 minutes until risen and golden brown.
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full recipes : neilshealthymeals.com

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