Cherry Crumble Cake

It's cherry season and we have abundance of it at the moment and at very cheap prices, so I cannot resist buying this little morsels. Well I went a little overboard and realize I had boxes of it in my freezer, so came the quest to find something to make out of it. And lo and behold I found this cake recipe from one of my many cookbooks.

For the crumble:

• 75gm plain flour 
• 75gm demerara sugar
• 1tsp ground cinnamon
• 75g unsalted butter

 For the cake:

• 2 free-range eggs
• 150gm unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
• 125gm caster sugar
• 125gm sour cream
• 250gm plain flour
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 200g cherries pitted

 Method:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Grease and line a 20cm/8in springform cake tin.
  2. For the crumble, place the flour, sugar, cinnamon and butter into a bowl and, using your fingertips, rub the mixture together until it resembles breadcrumbs. Set aside.
  3. For the cake, beat the eggs, butter and sugar in a bowl for five minutes with an electric whisk.
  4. Stir in the soured cream, then fold in the flour, cinnamon, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda until well combined and smooth.
  5. Spoon half of the mixture into the cake tin, top with the cherries, then the remaining cake mixture. Sprinkle over the topping.
  6. Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
  7. Remove the cake from the oven and set aside to cool for 5 minutes.
  8. For the glaze, whisk the icing sugar and two tablespoons of milk together in a bowl. (Add a little extra milk if the mixture is too thick.)
  9. Spoon the glaze over the top of the cake and set aside for 10 minutes, or until the glaze hardens.
      

  
  

  

 

The cake turn out really moist and the cherry gave it a healthy option anything with fruits in it should be good NO? Although I would have love the crumble to be crumbly but that was entirely my fault as I left the butter out too early and it went too soft in the summer heat. Something to remember for next time, never leave out the butter on a hot day.