A delicious loaf cake with a moist raspberry centre.
Yet another recipe from my Mum’s folder of clippings from various magazines. Unfortunately, there’s nothing on the cutting to say which magazine this came from – sorry! I made a couple of changes to the given method and was pleased with the results 🙂
Ingredients:
- 175 g / 6 oz butter and a little extra for greasing your tin
- 4 tbsp seedless raspberry jam (i.e. jelly jam)
- 175 g / 6 oz raspberries – you can use either fresh or frozen
- 150 g / 5.5 oz plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 150 g / 5.5 oz caster sugar
- 100 g / 4 oz ground almonds
- 50 g / 2 oz walnuts, roughly chopped
- zest of 1 large lemon
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- icing sugar for dusting.
Method:
Prepare a large loaf tin. Grease the inside with butter and line with greaseproof baking paper. If you can find them, you can use ready-shaped loaf tin liners.
Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees C (160 degrees C fan) / Gas Mark 4 / 350 degrees F.
Warm the jam until it’s smooth. You can do this in a pan, or by putting it in the microwave for 30 seconds. Gently stir the raspberries into the jam until they are coated.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Mix in the eggs, adding them one at a time and stirring until combined. Sift in the baking powder and flour. Add the ground almonds, lemon zest and most of the walnuts (leave about a quarter of them to sprinkle over the top of the cake). Stir all the ingredients together until combined.
Spoon half of the cake mixture into your loaf tin, making sure the bottom of the tin is covered.
Spoon about three quarters of your raspberry mixture onto this lower cake layer. Try to keep your layer of raspberries away from the sides of the cake to prevent “bleeding” during baking.
Carefully spoon the rest of the cake mixture around the sides of the raspberry layer and over the top. Sprinkle the remaining walnuts over the cake and bake for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown and firm to the touch.
Leave to cool in the tin for 5-10 minutes and then turn out onto a wire rack to finish cooling. Caution! It’s best to lift the cake out vertically, using the greaseproof paper to help you. If you have to tip the tin upside down be careful in case any boiling jam runs out and scalds you (not that this happened to me or anything…).
As you can see, the cake did dip in the middle. You might be able to counteract this by spooning extra mixture along the centre of the tin before putting the cake in the oven. Finally, spoon the remaining raspberry mixture over the cake and sprinkle with icing sugar to serve.
The cake is slightly gooey next to the inside layer of jam and fruit.
This final picture shows how much was left after the first serving, giving you an idea of how tasty this cake is!
The cake will keep for few days if stored in an airtight container and kept in a cool, dry place. I’d also recommend wrapping the end of the cake in clingfilm (aka plastic wrap) to stop it drying out.
And if you’re looking for other recipes featuring raspberries:
Raspberry ripple sponge layer cake with raspberry buttercream.
White chocolate layer cake with raspberry buttercream filling.
Looks fab, Claire 🙂 Hope you had a great break.
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Thank you! It was very nice. A bit hot this last week – good to be back to the cool 🙂
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Do you make anything that doesn’t look fabulous? I swear you need your own cooking show. This looks so yummy. 😍
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Thank you! 🙂 If the bug lottery win ever comes in, I’ll open a bookshop and café!
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That sounds like an excellent plan. I’m sure it would be a huge success. 🙂
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*big*
Although the bug lottery could be a thing somewhere! 😉
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That looks to die for!
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It was very nice and went down well with the little ones too 🙂
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You never fail to make me drool with your fabulous recipes. I am trying this soon!
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My mum grew a lot of raspberries this year so they’re featuring a lot! 🙂 It was really nice.
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I’m with the droolers…drooling… This looks fab!
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Thank you – it was delicious! 🙂
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Ya just couldn’t stay away from the cakes eh? 😉 Looks so yummy AND easy to make!
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Of course not! I’d start to have withdrawal 🙂 It was very nice!
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YUM! That is all.
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Haha! Thank you 🙂
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Yum!
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It was very nice. Thanks! 🙂
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I’m not a fan of walnuts but it looks like I could easily use any other nut as well, or leave them out altogether? I love raspberries, so I might have to try this!
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You could easily leave them out all together for undiluted raspberry goodness 🙂
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