Give me your best Cherry and Almond cake recipe please

[aJumpedUpPantryBoy]

DH and I went out to a café recently and we had a delicious Cherry and Almond cake. It was a loaf cake made with glacé cherries.
It was quite dense and very very delicious.

I did email them to see if they would share the recipe but the haven't replied.

Does anyone have a tried and tested recipe?
I'm not averse to the idea of making one using fresh cherries.

I use this one

This cake is just divine. Its an ideal present cake for Easter or Christmas. It looks fantastic. I got the recipe from the Good Food Magazine.

200g butter, at room temperature
200g caster sugar
4 eggs beaten
200g self-raising flour
200g glacé cherries, chopped
100g ground almonds
3 drops almond extract
250g marzipan
50g blanched almonds, halved lengthways
1 tsp icing sugar, for dusting
Method

1. Preheat the oven to 160°C/gas 3. Grease a deep 20cm round cake tin and line the base and sides with greaseproof paper.
2. Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and beat until light and creamy, 2-3 minutes. Pour in the eggs a little at a time and beat well after each addition. Mix in the flour one third at a time.
3. Fold in the cherries, ground almonds and almond extract until evenly mixed. Spoon half the mixture into the tin.
4. Roll out the marzipan to a 19cm circle. Lay this on top of the cake mixture in the tin, then cover with the rest of the mixture. Level with the back of a spoon and scatter the almonds on top.
5. Bake in the oven for 1 1/2 hours, covering with foil after 1 hour if it shows signs of burning. The cake is done when it shrinks away from the side of the tin and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin for 20 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely. Dust with icing sugar before serving.

Thank you both.

I shall try blueberryboybait's tonight as I have all the ingredients, but in the interests of fairness I shall try AnnabellaFagina's next week

After all, you can never have too much cake

Cake is in the oven, here's hoping for almondy-deliciousness

oh too late but i do a nigella loaf cherry and almond it is very yummy x

moocowmrs, feel free to post the recipe - I'm quite happy to try lots of different ones in the quest for the perfect cake

Not what you asked for , BUT
A black cherry and almond slice is quite possibly one of the great dishes of the world < exaggerates slightly >
Line a shallow flan tin with sweet pastry
Spread with some black cherry jam
Make a sponge mixture ( quantities obviously depend on size of tin )
I generally do a 2 egg mix, but don't use flour , use ground almonds
Spread over the jam, then sprinkle with flaked almonds ,
Bake and eat .
It's sort of posh bakewell tart .

Doilooklikeatourist - that sounds amazing - I shall be adding black cherry jam to the shopping list

I'm trying to ignore the fact that I'm trying to lose weight - cherries are a fruit after all

Oh these all sound so good. Marking my place so I can come back.

Tourist- I am literally drooling at the sound of that :)

blueberryboybait your recipe was delicious.

Phew! I always worry when someone makes a recipe I suggest!

Just updating to say that AnnabellaFagina's cake was also delicious.

I currently have this in the oven and I still need to try the Bakewell Tart type recipe