Tart Cherry Almond Cake #CakeSliceBakers

 The Tart Cherry Almond Cake starts with an easy almond-flavored cake batter that you then fold in tart cherries. Once it comes out of the oven and cools, it gets a soak in an almond simple syrup and then topped with a thick glaze and a sprinkle of slivered almonds. 



The only problem I had with this recipe is that the cherries all sunk to the bottom. The recipe says you can use either fresh or frozen tart cherries. I had a couple of jars of tart cherries in my house, so I decided to use one of those. The note at the top suggests placing half the cherries on top of the batter if you're using frozen, which I did with my jarred cherries. But they all sunk anyway.



With the cherries all clustered at the bottom, I had to work to get a proper taste of all the components. And while the iced cake was good, and the cake-encased cherries were good, the cherries with iced cake was perfection.


If I were to make this cake again, I would cut the cherries into fourths, and I might even opt to coat in flour instead of the cinnamon sugar recommended by the recipe. This cake would also be good with a variety of other fruits including blackberries, blueberries, and peaches.




Each month The Cake Slice Bakers are offered a selection of cakes from the current book we are baking through. This year it is The Cake Book: Beautiful Sweet Treats for Every Craving by Rebecca Firth. We each choose one cake to bake, and then on the 20th - never before - we all post about our cake on our blogs. There are a few rules that we follow, but the most important ones are to have fun and enjoy baking & eating cakes!

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It is a new year and a new book - The Cake Book: Beautiful Sweet Treats for Every Craving - and our choices for July 2024 were ~

Blueberry Muffin Skillet Cake

Tart Cherry Almond Cake

Gavin's S'mores Cake
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Comments

  1. A Day in the Life on the FarmJuly 20, 2024 at 7:14 AM

    Cherries and almonds are such a great flavor combination and I love that this cake is in loaf form

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  2. KarenJuly 20, 2024 at 2:41 PM

    My blueberries sunk too. I like your idea of cutting the cherries up. Your cake does look and sound delicious.

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  3. SusanBJuly 22, 2024 at 9:28 AM

    Oh, that icing! Looks terrific. Also, I didn't know you could get tart cherries in a jar.

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