I am married to a guy who has no interest in desserts.
This makes for an interesting dynamic at our house, seeing that I love making desserts more than anything else in the world.
It also explains the cellulite I have. SOMEBODY has to make sure my baking is edible, and that job usually falls on me.
This cake, however, was one my husband ate. He loves cherries.
It is so delicious and so freaking easy you won’t believe it. This is the sort of thing I imagine bakers in Italy making, because it’s rustic, simple and uses few ingredients. The combination of cherries and almonds is just delicious. I went searching for almond cake recipes, and this came up from Martha Stewart. It’s a keeper.
Warm Almond-Cherry Cake (recipe from Martha Stewart)
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pie plate
- 1 cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled), plus more for pie plate
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon pure almond extract
- 1 bag (12 ounces) frozen cherries, thawed and dried
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 9-inch deep-dish pie plate (4-cup capacity); set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
- Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in almond extract. With mixer on low, blend in flour mixture (do not overmix).
- Transfer batter to prepared pie plate; scatter cherries and almonds on top. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes before serving.
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OH YUM!! This is like porn for foodies!
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WOW. Does that look good.
I’m such a dessert person.
I am trying to become a lean, mean fighting machine again, so I’m eating healthy, but I saw this on my blog roll and was all, “Oh yeah, this is getting made today in this household!” Notice I did not say I was making it. This is what you have teenage girls for. I’ve already sent them up to the store for the ingredients. And then they’re going to bake this right up for me. I gave them the choice, pull weeds or make this cake. It’s going to be a great cake. Thanks for sharing.
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it doesn’t feel that unhealthy to me…I mean, it is a cake…but it feels better than the average cake.
that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
That cake look so good and that topping looks nice and crunchy. Sounds like a delicious treat to me. I have a sweet treat linky party going on at my blog right now called “Sweets for a Saturday” and I’d like to invite you to stop by this weekend and link your cake up. http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2011/02/sweets-for-saturday-3.html
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This. Looks. Amazing.
I am all about cherries and almonds. And cake? Well, duh.
Holy crap, you weren’t kidding. This does seem pretty easy. We love cherries too. Have to put this on my “must-try” list and hope it doesn’t fall into the “things I never get to” list.
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Love this recipe, it looks soooo good. I wonder how well it wil work with GF flours…. hmmm. Thanks for sharing!
Yum! I must figure out a way to add chocolate — chocolate and cherries are two of my favorite things.
I wonder if I can use almond flour instead of regular and omit the extract. I’m making almond honey cake tomorrow, and this sounds equally good!
You had me at warm….then at almonds….then cherries. Mmmmm!!! Will definitely make this one!
Ugh! I hate coming to your recipe posts at night when I’m hungry! Now all I can think about is that dessert!
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Excuse me, I don’t think I heard you correctly. You said someone has no interest in dessert? Are you kidding???????
My husband used to be plagued with the same issue. “I don’t really like sweets,” he used to tell me.
WHAT?!
I didn’t understand, but over the years I got used to it. Cookies, cakes, chocolate – my domain, alone. And then my husband stopped drinking soda…
We hadn’t put it together until he started to crave giant chocolate chunk cookies like crazy, but this guy had a bigger sweet tooth than I EVER had – he was just drinking his way through it!! That was so fascinating to find out, even if it has led to some more competition when the real goodies come around!
This recipe looks absolutely delectable and now I finally have someone here that can truly appreciate that fact with me!
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This sounds great! My husband isn’t a dessert person either, but I know he will like it. Adding this one to my recipe file.
Visiting from our SU group.
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This sounds so good. I love finding new desserts. My house is full of sweet tooth nuts. If we don’t have dessert in the house everyone gets grumpy.
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I’ll have to try it on my non-dessert eating husband! Why is it that men just don’t crave sweets???
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Not sure how I missed this post the first time around, but glad I got to see it through the SU group.
This is so very yummy looking/sounding!
I love dessert!
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Hi ! Stumbled upon you from the stubble group!
I also have a husband that doesn’t share my sweet tooth!
Have a fabulous day!
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