Yum Yum Cakes
A shortcake base, topped with meringue, glacé cherries and chopped walnuts.
Ingredients
Base
- 2 oz or 55g soft brown sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 oz or 85g butter
- 6 oz or 175g self-raising flour or plain/all-purpose flour + 2 tsp baking powder
Topping
- 2 egg whites
- 4 oz or 110g sugar
- 1 oz or 30g glacé cherries chopped
- 1 oz or 30g walnuts chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325F/160C (conventional oven) and line a 20cm/8inch square tin with baking parchment.
- Cream the butter and sugar together. Beat in the egg yolks and vanilla and then gradually mix in the flour.
- Spread the mixture into the base of the tin.
- Whisk the egg whites until stiff. Beat in half the sugar. Then fold in the remainder of the sugar with the chopped nuts and cherries. Spread this mixture over the base.
- Bake in a preheated 325F/160C oven for 25-30 minutes until golden.
- Leave in the tin and, when cool, cut into squares.