Chocolate, Cherry and Almond and Upside-Down Cake

Hello lovely people! I've had a wee break from the blog recently as I have been away for a week in Donegal, Ireland with my family. I was in the middle of nowhere with no mobile phone signal or wifi, it was quite nice to be out of communication for a while :). But not for too long, I missed my man and my girlfriends :).We spent most of our time eating in pubs, battling with sheep on the roads and walking this cutie pie...

In the UK the Great British Bake Off has started again, this is possibly my most favourite tv program in forever! Each week I will bake one of the bakes featured in the show and this week it is an Upside down cake. This recipe is an adjusted recipe from BBC Good Food website (the link will be attached at the end). I made this beauty for another sunday lunch with my man's family, and it went down a treat :). How amazing are chocolate,cherries and almonds together? Yummy scrummy. So here goes with the recipe...

Chocolate, Cherry and Almond Upside Down Cake

200g butter 

200g golden caster sugar

4 eggs

50g chocolate, melted

50g cocoa powder

25g ground almonds

200g cherries, stones removed

2 tbsp golden syrup

2 tbsp cherry jam

Topping-white chocolate, melted

milk chocolate, melted

toasted,flaked almonds

Method

1. Preheat oven to fan 160 degrees Celsius. Line a 20cm cake tin with paper and grease it.

2. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. 

3. Beat in eggs and melted chocolate.

4. Fold in flour, almonds and cocoa powder.

5.Line bottom of cake tin with cherries and cover with the syrup and jam mixed together. Spoon the cake mixture on top.

6. Bake for 1hr 15mins or until done. Cool in the tin, then turn out upside down.

7. Cover top with toasted almonds and drizzle chocolate on top.

8. Slice up and watch it disappear!

This is a yummy and impressive looking bake, and is a little bit more difficult than your average cake. One tip I do have for you is to be careful with oven times, as it is quite easy to overbake. Next up in this Great British Bake Off series is bread, it will be a first for me, so let's see how that one goes :).

Hope everyone is having a lovely week. Happy Baking!

Rachael xx.

P.s. Do you have any favourite cookery programs you could recommend to me? I'm always to watch more food on tv :). Oh and here is the link for the original recipe  http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/9965/upsidedown-berry-cake