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Cherry Traybake
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Cherry Traybake

Traybake style cake with glace cherries and fondant icing, topped with marzipan cherries
Course Dessert
Cuisine British
Keyword Cake
Prep Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 45 minutes
Servings 24
Calories 249kcal
Author thebakingexplorer

Ingredients

For the cake

  • 225 g Baking spread or butter softened, unsalted
  • 225 g Golden caster sugar or regular caster sugar
  • 3 Eggs large
  • 3 tbsp Milk
  • 275 g Self raising flour
  • ¾ tsp Baking powder
  • 65 g Ground almonds
  • 200 g Glace cherries

For the decoration

  • 250 g Marzipan
  • 1 kg White fondant
  • 2 tbsp Jam
  • Red food colouring
  • Green food colouring

Instructions

  • Pre-heat your oven to 160C Fan/180C/350F/Gas Mark 4, grease and line a 12" x 9" traybake tin
  • To make the sponge, mix together the butter and golden caster sugar, ideally using an electric mixer. Then whisk in the eggs and milk. Fold in the self raising flour, baking powder and ground almonds
  • Toss the glace cherries in some flour to coat them then add them to the mixture
  • Pour the batter into the tin and smooth it out
  • Bake for 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool fully
  • Split the marzipan in half and knead green food colouring into one half and red food colouring into the other half. Dust the work surface with icing sugar and roll them out into strips, connect them by slightly overlapping the edges and using a rolling pin to roll over them and seal the edges together
  • Use a cherry fondant plunger to cut out the cherry decorations. Lay them on some baking paper to set
  • When the sponge is cool, brush it all over with the jam
  • Roll out the white fondant, either onto a silicone mat or onto a icing sugar dusted work surface
  • Cover the sponge with the white icing, trim the edges, then cut the traybake into squares - 4 by 6. Brush water onto the back of the cherry decorations and stick them down onto each square
  • Store leftovers in an airtight container for 3-4 days

Nutrition

Calories: 249kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 41mg | Sodium: 87mg | Potassium: 54mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 269IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 29mg | Iron: 1mg