Featured Recipe
Ingredients:
275 gms glace cherries
65 gms self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
225 gms soft butter
225 gms castor sugar
6 beaten eggs
A pinch of salt
175 gms ground almonds, without skin
1/2 tsp almond flavoring |
Cherry Almond Cake
An Indian sweet and delicious dessert dish made with cherries,
flour, eggs, almonds, butter and sugar. |
Method:
- Grease a deep 9 " round cake pan. Line with grease proof paper
and grease it. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. If cake pan is smaller than specified one,
cake will crack.
- Cut the cherries into half and pat dry. Dust lightly with flour.
Arrange in the bottom of the pan.
- Beat butter with sugar till fluffy. Beat in eggs, little at a time,
add 1 tbsp flour also. Do not overstir, it results in holes in the cake.
- Add flour, pinch of salt, almonds and flavoring. Pour into pan after
mixing well. Tap the pan at the bottom.
- Bake for 1 hour or till cooked, check with knife, if it comes out
clean. Cool for few minutes. Sift icing sugar on top to decorate. Do not open oven door
while cake is rising. Do not overbake it results in dry texture.
Note: Cake cracks if oven temp is too cool or too hot or mixture is too stiff or cake pan
is small. Cake sinks in the middle if oven is too cool or too hot, insufficient baking
time or mixture is too soft.
Preparation time: 1 hour 10 minutes
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Feature:
Cooking Healthy
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Many hand and body lotions, facial creams, soaps contain honey. It will penetrate tiny
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