So I have 2 lovely cherry trees in my garden, one is for eating!! nomm nomm and one for cooking (if you accidentally eat a cooking one you realise why, just a bit bitter!)
This year is a bumper crop, in one picking I gathered (see am a hunter gatherer type) a colander full of cooking cherries.
What to cook, don't fancy a cherry pie nor a cake! hmmm lets try a torte
Cherry torte with a crumble topping
Ingredients:
- 140g self-raising flour
- ½ tsp mixed spice
- 50g caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 4 tbsp milk
- 85g butter, melted
- 350g juicy, ripe cherries
Topping:
- 25g plain flour
- ¼ tsp mixed spice
- 25g golden caster sugar
- 25g butter, at room temperature, diced
Method:
Preheat oven (I have an electric fan) 160 (conventional 180C/gas 4), grease and line your tin, go with what ever tin you have, cook longer if deeper, less if wider.
I had to hull my cherries.
Bung (yup a very technical term) self raising flour, caster sugar, egg, mixed spice, (cooled) melted butter into the mixer and whisk, adding the milk spoon by spoon, if mixture is non-batter like add extra milk.
Spread batter into the lined cake tin.
Then layer cherries on top.
In a food mixer, blitz the topping ingredients into a breadcrumb like mixture (or do it by hand if you don't have a blender)
Then spread the "crumb" on top of the batter/cherry base.
Cook in the oven (middle is best) for 25-35 mins (depending on thickness of cake/oven type) until that darn skewer come clean.
Serve warm with ice cream or cooled with cream xxx
