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Old-Fashioned Sour Cherry Cake

Simple ingredients, a light batter and a dusting of powdered sugar — all reasons why this cake, in taste and in looks, takes us back to our grandmothers' kitchens, at least for a moment.

Time
45 min
Servings
8
Difficulty
Easy
Cuisine
Serbia

5.0 · 1 rating

By Bojan Nikolić ·

Old-Fashioned Sour Cherry Cake

Preparation

  1. 1

    Wash the cherries and remove the pits.

    sour cherry
    Step 1
  2. 2

    Measure the flour into a bowl, add the baking powder and mix well.

    flour baking powder
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  3. 3

    In another bowl, beat the eggs.

    egg
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    Step 3 (2/2)
  4. 4

    Beating all the time, add the sugar, the vanilla sugar…

    sugar
    Step 4 (1/2)
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  5. 5

    …the oil, the milk and then the flour mixed with the baking powder.

    sunflower oil milk flour baking powder
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  6. 6

    Grease a baking pan with oil and dust it with flour.

    sunflower oil flour
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  7. 7

    Pour the batter into the pan and scatter the cherries over it.

    sour cherry
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  8. 8

    Bake the cake for about ten minutes in an oven preheated to 200°C, then lower the temperature to 180°C and bake for about 15 minutes more. When the cake is done, dust it with powdered sugar.

    sugar

    Tip: To check whether the cake is done, stick a skewer into it. As long as batter sticks to the skewer, the cake needs more time.

    Step 8

Serving

  1. 9

    Serve the cake cut into squares.

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