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Little Daisy Cakes

We've made individual cherry and almond cakes rather than a large one, so they're easy to serve at an Easter tea. They're also ideal as Mother's Day or Easter gifts, and they keep for a couple of days in a tin. Find seasonal cake recipes at waitrose.com/recipes.

Preparation time:
15 minutes
Cooking time:
25 minutes
Total time:
40 minutes 40 minutes
Makes:
 20

Ingredients

  • 200g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
  • 200g white marzipan, at room temperature
  • 75g caster sugar
  • 275g self-raising flour
  • 5 medium eggs, beaten
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • 1 tsp almond extract
  • 200g pack Waitrose Provençal Glacé Cherries
  • 200g sultanas
  • 25g flaked almonds

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 150°C, gas mark 2. Generously grease 20 holes of 2 x 12-hole non-stick muffin tins.
  2. Cut the butter and marzipan into cubes and place in a large mixing bowl with the caster sugar. Beat with an electric whisk until pale, fluffy and completely combined. Sieve the flour into the marzipan mixture, add the eggs and beat together. Stir in the milk and almond extract. The cake mixture should have a soft dropping consistency.
  3. Wash the syrup from the cherries, pat dry with kitchen roll, then cut in half. Reserve 20 of the halves and stir the remaining cherries, together with the sultanas, into the cake mixture. Spoon the mixture evenly into the 20 holes in the muffin tins. Arrange the flaked almonds on top of each cake and place one of the reserved cherry halves in the centre to make a flower pattern. Bake in the preheated oven for 20–25 minutes, or until the cakes are light golden, and a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre.

Cook's tips

For a large cake, make the same mixture but bake in a greased, lined 20cm round tin for about 1 hour 30 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre. Lightly cover the top with foil if it starts to get too dark.

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DebDeb

DebDeb 03 June 2010 20:10

Very easy to make and very tasty. Try substituting half the sultanas with chopped dark chocolate - wow!

louloutang

louloutang 31 May 2008 23:25

These little cakes are easy to make, look lovely and really delicious! Will make them again.

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Nutritional Info

Typical values per serving:
Energy 271.0kcal
Sugars 25.9g
Fat 12.7g
Saturated Fat 6.2g
Salt 0.4g

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This recipe was first published on Waitrose.com in March 2007