Bakewell cake

By: Rachel Allen From: Rachel Allen's Cake Diaries

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Prep time:
15 min
Cook time:
55 min
Serves:
6-8

Rachel Allen’s simple recipe mixes raspberries, almond and cream for a divine taste combo

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Ingredients

  • 150 g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
  • 150 g caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • A few drops of almond essence or almond extract
  • 50 ml milk
  • 150 g self-raising flour, sifted
  • 150 g ground almonds
  • 150 g fresh or frozen raspberries, defrosted if frozen
  • 25 g flaked almonds
  • icing sugar, for dusting
  • Fresh raspberries and softly whipped cream, to decorate
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Method

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter the sides of a 20cm cake tin and line the base with a disc of baking parchment.

2. Cream the butter until soft in a large bowl or in an electric food mixer. Add the sugar and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy. Whisk the eggs and the almond essence or extract together in a small bowl for a few seconds or just until combined, then gradually add the eggs to the creamed butter mixture, beating all the time.

3. Next beat in the milk, then add the flour and ground almonds, carefully folding these in just until they are mixed. Add the raspberries and fold in gently so as not to break them up too much.

4. Tip the batter into the prepared tin, then scatter over the flaked almonds. Bake for 50-55 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the tin for 10 minutes.

5. Use a small, sharp knife to loosen the edges, then carefully remove the cake from the tin and leave on a wire rack to cool down completely before transferring to a serving plate. Dust with icing sugar. Serve with softly whipped cream if you wish, or decorate with fresh raspberries.

Text © Rachel Allen 2012. Photography © Philip Webb 2012.
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Latest Comment

 

sooooooo nice ....lovely Smile

ibrahimA28765 ibrahimA28765  Posted 21 Dec 2012 11:21 AM
 

I've made this a couple of times now and its really yummy.

SharonW91430 SharonW91430  Posted 18 Oct 2012 9:36 PM