You can, obviously, use real cherries – but I was trying to stick to the bakewell theme a bit with the glacé cherries. I love to decorate my cakes ever so slightly as I just love the look of it, and it only seemed right to have some glacé cherries.

Bake this into three 8″/20cm tins for about 30-35 minutes! Then you can use 1.5x the jam and buttercream! If for example you did want to make this into a three layer cake, I would use 350g butter/sugar/flour/almonds and 7 medium eggs. You could entirely leave out the jam if you just wanted an almond cake too! I love recipes that are adaptable, to whatever my readers prefer. You can use any flavour of jam you want if you prefer like I’ve said – my usual alternative is raspberry, but that’s up to you. Marrying that with the cherry jam or converse in the middle, it creates the best flavour ever. This is completely optional, but I just loved it. Almond extractīecause of the almond flavour being there, but in my opinion, not quite strong enough – I used almond extract in the buttercream frosting. It bakes slightly more solid than a Victoria sponge, but you will forgive that because of the delicious texture that is created after the almonds. The cake mix looks different obviously because of the ground almonds, but it’s still lovely and thick and perfect. I tried substituting some of the flour for ground almonds, completely substituting and so on – but just the addition worked far better in my opinion. I used a standard Victoria sponge style recipe, but with the addition of ground almonds. For this cake, I decided to make a two layer cake (Sorry three layer lovers) as it was for my friends birthday, and they didn’t want a massive cake. The most similar thing, if you wanted something stuffed with fruit is my Berry Bakewell Cake!īakewell is typically almond, with cherry – or raspberry/strawberry etc depending on what you fancy. I have some older bakewell recipes on my blog, such as my Bakewell Cupcakes, and my Bakewell Cheesecake, but it’s been a while since I posted something like this. My Bakewell Blondies are one of my favourite recipes on my blog, and you all seem to adore them too. Bakewell anything is just so tasty, and I am completely in love with it. If you have never experienced something ‘bakewell’ flavoured, then you are missing out. Please see my disclosure for more details!* A two-layer bakewell cake with almond sponges, cherry jam, almond buttercream frosting and more!

Chocolate bakewell tart