Iced Cherry Cake/ Scottish Cherry Cake/ Glace Cherry cake
This week we enter the 2nd week of our mega marathon of journey through the cuisines. From the deep southern african dessert we straight go across the globe closer to the northern pole...Scotland this week.
The Scottish food is not very different from the English one and also has a lot of baking. The reason I picked Scottish recipes was because I follow a lot of baking books which are originally written by many Scottish chefs. A little bit of reading around the countries in United Kingdom, led me to know that England and Ireland are offsprings of Scotland and not the other way round. So most dishes although sounding similar may have been originated in Scotland.
Well, in my pursuit to find the most authentic recipes from Scotland, I also reached out to a friend who tells me that they have a heavy european influence. This explains the great baking recipes coming out ,doesnt it?
Ingredients
113 gms or 3/4 cup Self raising flour
113 gms butter
113 gms castor sugar
113 gms glace cherries
1 medium size egg
1 tspn vanilla essence - optional
2 tbsp icing sugar
Method
1) Wash the glace cherries to remove the glace on it and then chop it up roughly. Coat a few tspn of flour and set aside
2) In a bowl, cream the butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy
3) Beat the egg and add it to the butter mixture.
4) Add the flour next and fold it until well mixed. This mixture will be slightly stiffer and not very runny. This is okay.
5) Add the dusted cherries and mix them in.
6) Line a cake tin of 8 inches with parchment paper.I baked in 2 small pans - 6 inch and 4 inch.
7) Pour the mixture and flatten it with the back of the spoon.
8) Bake for 30-35 min at 170c in a preheated oven.
The Scottish food is not very different from the English one and also has a lot of baking. The reason I picked Scottish recipes was because I follow a lot of baking books which are originally written by many Scottish chefs. A little bit of reading around the countries in United Kingdom, led me to know that England and Ireland are offsprings of Scotland and not the other way round. So most dishes although sounding similar may have been originated in Scotland.
Well, in my pursuit to find the most authentic recipes from Scotland, I also reached out to a friend who tells me that they have a heavy european influence. This explains the great baking recipes coming out ,doesnt it?
113 gms or 3/4 cup Self raising flour
113 gms butter
113 gms castor sugar
113 gms glace cherries
1 medium size egg
1 tspn vanilla essence - optional
2 tbsp icing sugar
Method
1) Wash the glace cherries to remove the glace on it and then chop it up roughly. Coat a few tspn of flour and set aside
2) In a bowl, cream the butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy
3) Beat the egg and add it to the butter mixture.
4) Add the flour next and fold it until well mixed. This mixture will be slightly stiffer and not very runny. This is okay.
5) Add the dusted cherries and mix them in.
6) Line a cake tin of 8 inches with parchment paper.I baked in 2 small pans - 6 inch and 4 inch.
7) Pour the mixture and flatten it with the back of the spoon.
8) Bake for 30-35 min at 170c in a preheated oven.
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