Jun 26 Fresh Cherry Cake

The summer season brings an abundance of delicious fresh cherries to the markets around the peninsula, and what better to use them in but a fresh cherry cake, courtesy of The Torba Cook.

Ingredients: 225 gm stoned fresh cherries 2 tablespoon flour 250 gm flour 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon (or flavour with vanilla or lemon zest) 160ml oil 2 eggs 200gm sugar 250ml milk

Method:

1. Set oven to 170 degrees
2. Toss cherries in the smaller quantity of flour.
3. Grease a 9" cake tin.
4. Stir together the flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon/vanilla/zest and sugar.
5. Add oil and eggs and enough milk to make a soft dropping mixture.
6. Fold in cherries.
7. Put in tin and bake for approx 60 minutes until a knife comes out clean.