Moist, fruity, and ultra-delicious, this is wonderful with lightly whipped cream for a winning teatime treat.
Serves8
CourseCake
Prepare30 mins
Cook1 hr
Total time1 hr 30 mins
Ingredients
100g blanched hazelnuts
Vegetable oil or butter, for greasing
200g caster sugar
175g Essential Plain Flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
3 Essential Free Range White Eggs
250g Essential Italian Ricotta
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 unwaxed lemon, zest, plus juice of 1⁄2
240g pack No.1 Speciality Raspberries
100g icing sugar
Double cream, whipped, to serve (optional)
Method
Preheat the oven to 180oC, gas mark 4. Spread the
hazelnuts over a baking tray and roast for 8-10 minutes or
until golden, then set aside to cool. Meanwhile, lightly grease
and line a 20cm round, springform cake tin with parchment.
Reduce the oven temperature to 170oC, gas mark 3.
Put the toasted hazelnuts and 1 tbsp caster sugar in a small
food processor and pulse until the nuts are finely ground.
Combine in a mixing bowl with the remaining caster sugar
plus the flour, baking powder and salt.
In a separate large mixing bowl, use an electric whisk
to whisk together the eggs, ricotta, vanilla and lemon zest
until soft and fluffy. Add the dry ingredients and gently fold
together with a large metal spoon until combined. Tip 1/2
the cake batter into the tin, then scatter over 75g raspberries.
Spoon the remaining batter over the top and scatter with
another 75g raspberries. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until
the cake is golden, risen and a skewer inserted into the
centre comes out clean.
Mix the juice of 1/2 the lemon with the icing sugar and
whisk until smooth, adding more lemon juice if liked. Allow
the cake to cool in the tin completely, then drizzle over the
icing and serve with the extra raspberries and a little
whipped cream, if liked.
Cook’s tip
No lemon? Swap for 2 unwaxed limes or half a scrubbed orange - these fruits will work just as well.