Delicious Green Cherry Fruit Cake Recipe baked with a charcoal oven

It has been a while since a recipe was posted so we’re definitely making sure we remedy that ^_^

Today’s recipe is a fruit cake with dried fruits and green cherries.

The green cherries were left over from a previous order, so wanted to put them to good use. They are the glace kind, just wash them to remove the syrup then chop them up. If you have red cherries, you can use them too, the color will pop better as well. Soak the raisins/dried fruit in a bowl of water; then before use, dry both the cherries and dried fruits with a kitchen cloth.
This time in the recipe caster sugar was used, just to show the difference in the regular and caster sugars. Caster sugar creams better since it’s finer. If you don’t have caster sugar you can use regular table sugar.

Hope you enjoy this recipe, we did! It’s a soft, rich and slightly spicy cake – promise you’ll love it too ^_^

Delish Cherry Fruit Cake

Ingredients:
* All – Purpose Flour – 2 cups
* Baking Powder       – 2 teaspoons
* Cinnamon               – 1/2 teaspoon
* Caster Sugar          – 1 cup
* Margarine              – 1 cup
* Vanilla Essence     – 1/2 teaspoon
* Eggs                       – 2 pcs
* Glace Cherries      – 1/8 cup
* Dried fruits            – 1/4 cup
* Milk                       – 3/4 cup

Directions:
1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celsius or a medium heat. Grease and flour an 8 inch round cake pan and set aside.
2. Wash the glace cherries and chop them into quarters and set aside. Soak your dried fruit in a small bowl.

Washed whole green cherries

Chopped Green cherries

3. Measure all your dry ingredients and sift them onto a medium bowl i.e. flour, baking powder and cinnamon.

Sifting dry ingredients

4. Measure your caster sugar and margarine into a medium bowl.

Measure margarine and sugar into bowl

5. Cream the two for 5 to 8 minutes until white.

Creaming

6. Add the vanilla and then beat an egg in a bowl, then add to the creamed mixture.

Beat one egg in a small bowl

Vanilla and egg in creamed mixture

7. Beat for a minute, then beat the second egg in a bowl and add to creamed mixture and beat for another minute. Set aside your mixer.

Your ready to put in the flour

8. Add your flour alternately with the milk, start and end with the flour for best results.

Add flour to creamed mixture

Fold in your flour

Add milk alternately as you fold in the flour

9. Fold in the cherries and dried fruit gently.

Gently fold in the fruits

10. Pour the batter into a cake pan and place in the oven middle rack to bake.
11. Bake for 45 minutes to an hour, or until a skewer or knife inserted comes our clean. Cool for about 20 minutes then remove cake from pan and set on a tray or cooling rack. Cool completely and serve plain.

Your Cake is ready!

This cake is very rich, delicious and moist, best when eaten plain. However if you really want to, you can frost it.

Slice of Green Cherry Fruit Cake