Ingredients (serves 10)

• 1/2 Jar Pitted Cherries - quantity to your liking
• 1.5 Cups Self Raising Flour - Sifted
• 3 Eggs
• 1/5 cup Butter OR olive oil
• 1/2 cup Milk - any variety
• 3/4 cup Caster Sugar
• 1 tsp Icing sugar for dusting

Method

1. Preheat oven at 180 Celsius and grease, line a 20cm baking springform tin.
2. With a stand or hand mixer, beat eggs, sugar, milk, and butter OR oil until you get a creamy consistency.
3. Add sifted self-raising flour. Stir by hand with a wooden spoon until you get a smooth and creamy consistency.
4. Pour mixture into the prepared baking tin
5. Add pitted cherries on top of the mixture or stirred into the mixture if desired. Just remember the cherries tend to sink to the bottom of the mixture when cooking, hence why it's better to put them on top (and let the sink in naturally).
6. Place in preheated oven at 180 celsius for 35 minutes or until the skewer comes out clean.
7. Remove from oven and leave in the baking tin for 10 minutes.
8. Remove from tin and place on a cooling rack.
9. When completely cool place on a serving dish and dust with icing sugar.

Notes

I have made this recipe with half the self raising flour and half almond meal and it was divine. You can also add any fruit alternative to it. I've made it with soft pears, canned plums and canned apricots previously. Cherry is the best in my opinion.