Cherry Cake

 Cherry cake
(recipe adapted from joyofbaking)  

Ingredients: 
113g Cowhead salted butter 
350g fresh sweet cherries 
130g Blue Jacket Cake flour
55g ground almonds
1.5 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
150g fine sugar
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
80ml milk 

Method: 
1. In a small saucepan, melt the butter. Remove from heat & set aside for later use.

2. Rinse, dry, pit all the cherries & cut into quarters.

3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the sifted flour, ground almonds & baking powder.  

4. Whisk eggs & sugar until thick & pale colored in a mixer. Beat in the vanilla extract. Then,  with a balloon whisk, fold in the melted & cooled butter & milk till combined. Fold in the flour mixture & the quartered cherries. Pour the batter into a lined 8" pan.

5. Bake in a preheated oven @ 160C for 40mins.