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Recipe Ingredient
- 150g pitted sweet dark cherries, well drained
- 225g butter
- 200g castor sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 3 eggs
- 295g self-raising flour
- 35g ground almond
- 125ml evaporated milk
- Icing sugar to dust
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a 22cm kugelhopf tin. Arrange some halved pitted sweet dark cherries on the base of the tin.
- Beat butter, sugar and essence until creamy and light. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Combine flour and ground almonds. Alternately fold in flour mixture and evaporated milk into the batter, starting and ending with the flour.
- Spoon one half portion of the batter into the tin. Line cherries, spacing out in a row then spoon remaining batter into the tin.
- Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Cover the cake with foil if it browns too quickly.
- Cool the cake in the tin for 10-15 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Dust cake with icing sugar to serve.
