Cherry Bakewell Loaf Cake

Cherry bakewell loaf cake is an easy and delicious budget cake with all the flavours of a bakewell tart. Topped with a layer of icing sugar it’s perfect for sharing with friends.

Well folks thank goodness we’ve got January out of the way. Is it now safe to bring you this cherry bakewell loaf cake recipe?

When I say “safe”, I don’t mean that there’s anything dangerous about this cake. Well except that it is amazingly tasty! 😆

No, what I mean is that January’s usually that month where everyone’s on a health kick.

So now that it’s over let’s relax a little and enjoy some relatively healthy cherry cake!

Actually, I could have brought you this recipe in the middle of January.

They say it’s usually by then that New Year’s resolutions and those “temporary” health kicks are chucked out of the window!

But, there is of course a different way to healthy living.

If you’re reading this you know we’re all about living the 80/20 way here where there’s no need to go on a diet. No need EVER.

All you need to do is eat healthily for 80% of the time and have a regular exercise routine.

Then you can afford to indulge a little on nice things for the other 20% of the time. Like with this tasty Cherry Bakewell Loaf Cake!

Yeah, yeah I know, I bang on about 80/20 all the time but it works.

I find it hard in January not to unleash a huge rant about all the diets and miracle weight loss products. The ones that suddenly appear and grab people’s attention. And unfortunately their hard earned cash too.

Sure you might experience a temporary weight loss on these diets, but it’s not sustainable is it? Would you want to spend the rest of your life on such miserable food restricting regimes?

OK I’ll stop now. I’ve said my piece. 😉

Why You’ll Love This Cherry Bakewell Loaf Cake

• No butter is involved in the making of this cherry bakewell sponge cake.
• You don’t have to wait until cherries are available. It’s made with glace cherries so you can make it all year round.
• This cherry loaf cake contains all the delicious flavours of a bakewell tart. Only it’s in the form of an easy sliced loaf cake!

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This is the basic loaf tin I use. As you can see it’s relatively inexpensive and its perfect for loaf cake recipes. Plus it’s teflon coated and comes with a lifetime guarantee.

Cherry Bakewell Loaf Cake Inspiration

I’ve always loved that unique sweet almond taste of cherry bakewell tart.

My first attempt at re-creating those flavours were these delicious Cherry Bakewell Muffins. I made those at the time of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games nearly 3 years ago! (Wow have I really been writing this blog for nearly three years now?).

So today I’m sure you’re going to love this sliced sharing loaf cake. It’s great to share with friends as I did with my work colleagues recently who kindly gave it their seal of approval by making it vanish in literally minutes……… 😀

If you enjoyed this cherry bakewell loaf cake recipe then why not try one of my other popular bakes recipes? Like the Lighter Lemon Loaf Cake or my tasty Pumpkin Gingerbread?

Folks, please join me next Thursday. I’ll be bringing you a delicious Strawberry Valentines Pancakes recipe.

A perfect recipe for serving up to your loved one on Valentines Day. Actually you’ll be thanked for dishing it up not just on Valentines day, but on any day of the year!! 👍

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Watch the short video I made to show you how to make this cherry bakewell loaf cake. It shows you how easy it really is!

Cherry Bakewell Loaf Cake Recipe

If you know someone who likes Bakewell tart, then they will just love this cake too. Why not make it for them?

I’d love to hear what you think of my recipe in the comments below and please do rate my recipe 5* if you like it! 🙂

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Cherry Bakewell Loaf Cake

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

40 mins

Total Time

50 mins

 

Cherry bakewell loaf cake is an easy and delicious budget cake with all the flavours of a bakewell tart. Topped with a layer of icing sugar it's perfect for sharing with friends.

Course: Home Baking

Cuisine: British

Keyword: cherry bakewell cake, cherry bakewell spong cake

Servings: 15

Calories: 223 kcal

Author: Neil

Ingredients

For the loaf cake :-

• 250 g self raising flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 100 g golden caster sugar
• 85 g ground almonds
• 150 g glace cherries
• 2 eggs lightly beaten
• 50 ml sunflower oil
• 175 ml skimmed milk

For the topping :-

• 200 g icing sugar
• 3 tbsp water
• 2 tbsp flaked almonds

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Make the loaf cake :-

1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F and grease a 20cm x 12.5cm / 8” x 5” loaf tin.
2. Sift all of the dry ingredients, the flour, baking powder, caster sugar, ground almonds and glace cherries into a large mixing bowl.
3. In a separate bowl, add the wet ingredients the eggs, oil and milk. Mix together.
4. Gradually pour the wet ingredients into the larger bowl with the dry ingredients. Fold all of the ingredients together either using a spatula.
5. Pour cake mixture into loaf tin and bake for 35 - 40 minutes until risen and golden brown.
6. Check the loaf has cooked by inserting a wooden skewer / cocktail stick into the centre which should come out clean if cooked then remove from the oven.
7. Allow to cool slightly in the tin before removing and transferring to a wire baking rack.

Make the topping :-

1. In a measuring jug make the icing by whisking together the icing sugar and water and pour on top of the loaf then decorate with flaked almonds and any spare glace cherries.
2. Store in an air tight container or slice into 15 slices and freeze.

Recipe Notes

Calories are per slice.

Slices of this cake can be frozen.

Topping the cake with the icing is optional.