
Makes 1 x 2lb loaf
Ingredients
150g soft butter
200g glacé cherries, washed, dried and quartered
150g natural coloured marzipan, cut into cubes
150g self-raising flour
150g caster sugar
3 medium eggs, beaten
75g ground almonds
1 lemon, zest & juice
40g flaked almonds
Method
Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/gas 4.
Grease a 2lb loaf tin and insert a paper liner or line with grease proof.
Dust the cherries and marzipan with some flour as this will stop them sinking to the bottom of the cake while baking.
Put the butter, caster sugar, eggs, ground almonds, remaining flour, lemon zest and juice in a large mixing bowl. Beat until smooth. Fold in the cherries and marzipan.
Spoon the batter into the loaf tin, level the surface and sprinkle with flaked almonds. Bake for 1 hour in the center of your oven, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
Turn out to cool on a wire rack. Enjoy
Must make it it looks fab
Ah thanks Marie 🙂
made the lemon , cherry and almond loaf but was still moist after 1 hour and 20 minutes in the oven. why?? perhaps I put in too much marzipan??
Hi John, thats a hard one to answer. The recipe is tried and tested so perhaps it was the addition on too much marzipan