Iced Cherry Cake

Name: Iced Cherry Cake
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 8 ounces (250g/One and a quarter cups in North America) self-raising flour; (all-purpose flour with baking powder); 8 ounces (250g/one cup) margarine; 8 ounces (250g/one and a quarter cups) caster sugar (fine granulated sugar); 4 eggs (medium); 8 ounces (250g/one cup) glacé cherries; 8 ounces (250g/one and a quarter cups) icing sugar (frosting)

7 steps

Cook:40min

“Cherry cake, with icing on top, is one of the mainstays of Scottish home baking tearooms.”

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:24:18 GMT

Nutrition balance score

Unbalanced

Glycemic Index

High

Nutrition per serving

Calories5686.4 kcal (284%)

Total Fat221.1 g (316%)

Carbs886.8 g (341%)

Sugars658.3 g (731%)

Protein49.8 g (100%)

Sodium5647.7 mg (282%)

Fiber9.2 g (33%)

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Ingredients

0 servings

250gself-raising flour

one and a quarter cups in north america

all-purpose flour

baking powder

250gmargarine

250gcaster sugar

one and a quarter cups, fine granulated sugar

4eggs

medium

250gglacé cherries

250gicing sugar

one and a quarter cups, frosting

Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 160C/325F/Gas Mark 3 (or slightly higher if not an electric fan assisted oven) and line a baking tray (8″ x 12″ x 1½” or 20cm x 30cm x 5cm) with parchment paper.

Baking sheet

Parchment paper

OvenPreheat

Step 2

Wash, dry and chop up the cherries to remove the glacé coating (but retaining some as quarter cherries to decorate the top later). If you coat them in some flour it will stop them sinking to the bottom of the cake.

Knife

Step 3

Cream the margarine and sugar together thoroughly until light and fluffy (to help the cake rise with the trapped air). Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until smooth.

Whisk

Step 4

Stir in the flour and then add the cherries. Spread evenly into the tin and bake in the middle of the oven for about 40 minutes. Allow to cool in the tin.

OvenHeat

Step 5

Add a little water at a time to the icing sugar (frosting) until it has a consistency which coats the back of a metal spoon without running off.

Step 6

Remove the cake from the tin and spread the icing sugar evenly on top.

Step 7

Decorate with quartered cherries.

Knife