Basque Cake with Cherry Preserves

Name: Basque Cake with Cherry Preserves
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons pure almond extract; 59 milliliters sliced almonds, optional; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 651 milliliters cake flour; 79 milliliters sour cherry preserves; 3 larges eggs; 315 milliliters granulated sugar; 0 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Basque Cake with Cherry Preserves From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes. If you have almond extract, almonds, eggs, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Place an oven rack in the middle of the oven. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter a 10-inch cake pan or spring-form pan. In a mixer with a whip attachment, beat the butter until creamy. Gradually beat in the sugar until light and fluffy.

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Butter

Sugar

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Cake Form

Blender

Oven

Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract.

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Vanilla Extract

Egg

Sift the cake flour, salt, and baking powder together and use a rubber spatula to fold the dry ingredients into this butter mixture until a soft dough forms and no white streaks of flour remain.

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Baking Powder

All Purpose Flour

Butter

Dough

Salt

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Spatula

Spread half the batter evenly in the bottom of the prepared pan. Stir the almond extract into the cherry preserves. Spoon the cherry preserves over the batter, spreading it within 2 inches of the border.

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Cherry Preserves