Gluten free Cherry Cake is an old fashioned tea time treat.
This cake looks great served the way it is but I like to drizzle mine with a Delicious glace icing and glace cherry halves.
This recipe is a win-win for me. Serve it to your guests with tea or coffee. Or just sit back and enjoy it on your own or with the family.
Gluten free Cherry Cake
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Serve it to your guests with tea or coffee. Or just sit back and enjoy it on your own or with the family.
Author: Laura Blaine
Ingredients
- 125g Glace Cherries, Halved
- 200g Gluten free Self Raising Flour
- 125g Butter
- 125g Caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- Glace icing:
- 150g icing sugar sieved
- 1-2 tbsp warm water
- Handfull of cherries halved
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 165*C Fan or 350*F. Prepare your 1lb loaf tin.
- Put the flour in a bowl and add the cherries to it, mixing them until they are all well coated.
- In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then add the eggs and beat them in well, 1 at a time.
- Add the flour and cherries and stir gently.
- Pour the mixture into the loaf tin. Bake for 30 minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 145*C fan or 325*F and bake for a further 45 minutes, or until the cake is risen, golden and a knife inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 30 minutes in its tin, then turn out and transfer to a rack to cool completely.
- Glace icing:
- For the Glace icing mix the sieved icing sugar with 1tbsp of warm water, Mix well.
- If its too thick add the other tbsp. Beat well. It should be thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
- Drizzle the glace icing over the cake, as much as you like and stick a few cherry halves were you like.
- Slice now and serve or you can wait til the glace hardens. Enjoy
