Cherry Almond Loaves Recipes

Steps:

• In a bowl, beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add the egg, almond extract and vanilla while beating. Add cherries and the juices. Beat to combine everything.
• Put flour in a small bowl. Add baking powder and salt. Add to the mixture of cherries. Stir just enough to wet the dry ingredients. Pour the dough in a greased loaf pan. Cook in the oven at 350 F for about 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in it comes out dry. Cut in 8 slices.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream sugar and butter. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Blend in extract. Combine dry ingredients; blend into creamed mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Stir in almonds and cherries. Pour into a greased and floured 9x5-in. loaf pan. Bake at 350° for about 70 minutes or until loaf tests done. Remove from pan and cool on a wire rack.

Steps:

• Lightly grease a 9x5x3-in. loaf pan and set aside.
• In large mixing bowl, stir together flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking powder and salt.
• In small bowl, stir together egg, milk, cooking oil and almond extract 'til well combined.
• Add egg mixture to dry mixture all at once. Stir 'til just moistened. Fold in the maraschino cherries and chopped almonds. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in a 350ºF. oven 1 hour or 'til a wooden toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.
• Cool in loaf pan on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove loaf from pan. Cool completely on the wire rack.
• Wrap and store overnight before slicing.

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter a 900g loaf tin and line with baking parchment. Beat the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy, then beat in the eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla and almond extract (if using).
• Toss the cherries with 2 tbsp of the flour in a bowl. Tip the rest of the flour, the ground almonds, baking powder and a pinch of salt into the bowl with the sugar and eggs, and mix until just combined. Fold in the cherries and any remaining flour in the bowl. Spoon into the prepared tin and smooth over the top.
• Bake for 50-55 mins, or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool for 10 mins in the tin, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Serve as it is, or mix the icing sugar with the extract and enough milk to make a thick but pourable consistency. Drizzle over the loaf cake, and scatter over the flaked almonds to serve.