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Old Fashioned Cherry Cake

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Course: Dessert, Snack
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 180 g self-raising flour
  • 1 tbsp custard powder or cornflour
  • 110 g caster sugar
  • ¾ tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • pinch of salt
  • 145 ml dairy-free milk
  • 1 tbsp dairy-free yogurt
  • 50 g dairy-free margarine melted
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 100 g glace cherries some halved and some quartered
  • Icing sugar for dusting

Equipment

  • makes one loaf cake
  • 1 2lb loaf tin

Method
 

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Centigrade/Gas Mark 5. Grease and line the loaf tin
  2. Sift together the flour, custard powder, bicarb and salt
  3. Stir in the sugar and then stir in 2/3rds of the chopped cherries
  4. In a separate bowl, mix together the dairy-free milk, melted dairy-free margarine, yoghurt and vanilla.
  5. Mix the wet ingredients into the dry. Mix gently until well combined.
  6. Pour into the cake tin and then scatter the remaining cherries over the top, gently submerging them into the top of the batter with the tip of a knife.
  7. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until a knife comes out clean
  8. Cool in the tin then dust liberally with icing sugar

Notes

Use 1 tsp almond extract for a Bakewell tart flavour, and top with a thick water icing