Cherry and Vanilla Cake

  • Clock Icon Prep 20 mins Cooking 45 mins
  • Dinner Icon Serves 6

This is essentially a butter cake studded with cherries and topped with a streusel mixture. It’s just gorgeous warm from the oven with a dollop of cream and equally as good when baked with apricots, peaches or poached apples.

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Ingredients

  • 180g butter, softened
  • ⅔ cup caster sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup The Healthy Baker Self Raising Flour
  • ⅓ cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
  • 1 ½ cups cherries, pitted

For the streusel topping

  • 3 tablespoon The Healthy Baker Plain Flour
  • 60g butter, softened
  • ⅓ cup demerara sugar
  • 1 teaspoon mixed spice
  • for dusting icing sugar

Instructions

1

Preheat oven to 180C and grease and line a 20cm springform cake tin.

2

Cream the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy.

3

Add the eggs, one at a time and beating well between each addition.

4

Fold in the buttermilk, flour and vanilla and spoon the mixture into your prepared cake tin. Top with the cherries.

5

To make the streusel, combine all ingredients in a large bowl and work together with your fingertips until mixture comes together in rough clumps. Scatter this over the cake, as evenly as you can.

6

Then place in the oven to cook for 45 minutes or until a skewer comes out of the middle clean and the cake has begun to pull away from the sides of the tin.

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