The Costello Kitchen was closed for a few days last week (to baking – we still manage to eat other things than cake!). BritMums and school stuff seemed to take over. The ovens are back on with a vengeance today though.
I started with something hearty and easy to make – I reckon we can get away with calling this Cherry Loaf Cake ‘rustic’ – Is that code for ‘A bit of a mess’?
I’ve got the knitting needles out as you can see from the photo above – I’m determined this will be a calmer week and I’ll get some relaxation time. Its not looking likely so far though!
| Serves | 10 |
| Prep time | 20 minutes |
| Cook time | 1 hour, 10 minutes |
| Total time | 1 hour, 30 minutes |
| Meal type | Dessert, Snack |
| Misc | Child Friendly, Freezable, Serve Cold |
| Occasion | Casual Party |
INGREDIENTS
- 1oz Plain Flour
- 1oz Butter (Very cold – cut into small chunks)
- 1.5oz Demerara Sugar
- 0.5oz Flaked Almonds
- 6oz Melted Butter (Left to cool for at least 5 minutes)
- 6oz Caster Sugar
- 3 Eggs (Whisked)
- 1 Zest Lemon
- 100g Greek Yogurt
- 3 tablespoons Lemon Curd
- 7oz Self-Raising Flour
- 4oz Glace Cherries (Cut into quarters)
- 1 tablespoon Plain Flour
DIRECTIONS
| Streusel Topping | |
| 1. | |
| In a medium bowl, mix the plain flour, Demerara sugar & cold butter chunks with a knife. Then rub together with your fingers until just combined – you want some small chunks of butter and sugar remaining. Add the almonds and quickly stir through. Leave to one side. | |
| Cherry Loaf Cake | |
| 2. | |
| Preheat the oven to 160C. Line a alb loaf tin – I use Lakeland disposable loaf tin liners – Brilliant! | |
| 3. | |
| Using an electric mixer, whisk the melted butter and the caster sugar until creamy. | |
| 4. | |
| Add the eggs gradually whilst still mixing. | |
| 5. | |
| Stir in the lemon zest, greek yogurt and the lemon curd ( I like a really lemony taste – You can get away with just 1 tbsp of curd if you like more of a subtle lemon flavour) | |
| 6. | |
| Stir in the self raising flour until just combined. Do not over-work the flour. | |
| 7. | |
| Roll the cherries in the 1 tbsp of plain flour. | |
| 8. | |
| Add a layer of cake mixture to the bottom of the tin, then add a handful of cherries spread out evenly. | |
| 9. | |
| Keep alternating the cherries and the cake mixture until it is all used. | |
| 10. | |
| Sprinkle the streusel topping evenly on the top of the cake mix and bake for 50 minutes. | |
| 11. | |
| After 50 minutes, reduce the heat to 150C and bake for approximately 15-20 mins more – until a skewer comes out clean. | |
Thanks Helen it did take a lot of planning but was fab. I just wish some of the shops had clicked to selling snowy stuff. Finding all the bits was a job in itself!
Thank you Helen! We have many interesting ideas for baking!!!
Thank you so much for the warm welcome. I hope to come back later in the week with another baked good made with homegrown strawberries, your cherry streusel looks yummy. Wouldn’t mind a slice right now. Also so amazing the number of entries here, off to check out some of them.
i love cherry cake and the streusel topping sounds lovely x
Oooh this actually looks delicious Helen, You can’t beat a rustic looking creation anyway xx
Relaxation, huh? What is that? I think the only time I felt relaxed this week was when I was baking a cake for my daughter’s school fair. Thanks for linking your lovely cake to #CookBlogShare
I LOVE cherry so this is right up my street! This will be going on my list of things to bake!
Rahul
That looks so delicious! I love cherry cake and can quite happily wolf it down, a great big wodge of it makes me a happy lady. I’ve never heard of that topping before but I bet it’s a nice addition to the cake.
This looks gorgeous, cherry is one of my favourite cake ingredients!
Now I’ve seen this linky i’m hoping to join in in the not too distant future! I really need to start baking more!
What a gorgeous cake. I think I ‘m going to have to bake this.
Hello! I have just added my speculaas biscuits to Bake of The Week. Have a good week x
What a yum sounding recipe! 🙂
Aw, what a cute photo with the wool! Love it. I always show your recipes to my husband and I know he wishes I would make one or two one day. Maybe I’ll surprise him as this one looks lovely!
x x
Can you believe I just got the pingback of this entry on my site TODAY?? It is April 4, 2015!! Anyhow, thanks so much for adding me and a link to my site 😉 And I have to make sure I keep posting recipes here!