So I had a jar of morello cherries which needed used up, the result.. Morello Cherry Frangipane. The quantity was a 350g jar of morello cherries in light syrup. The syrup i could use to make a hot cherry icing, by reducing the syrup and mixing with icing sugar, finishes off the Morello Cherry Frangipane perfectly. Three key parts to this recipe are the sweet pastry base, the morello cherries and the frangipane. The sweet pastry is as basic as you can get with butter, sugar, plain flour and a touch of water to bring it together. With the frangipane which is made up with butter, sugar, eggs, ground almonds, plain flour and almond extract. I combined the drained cherries with the frangipane before scooping into the sweet pastry lined flan tin.
This
is just one solution to using up spare jars of cherries, you could
drain off the cherries and make a muffin or cupcake batter, maybe
mixed through a light fluffy pancake batter, or even use with pork
and other meat dishes.
Preheat
oven to 180°C/ 160°C
fan and bake for around 40 minutes
Morello Cherry Frangipane recipe
For
the sweet pastry base
200
grams plain flour
120
grams butter or cake margarine
70
grams caster sugar
1 to
2 teaspoons water to bind
For
the Frangipane
225g
butter
225g
caster sugar
1
teaspoon almond essence
175g ground almonds
175g ground almonds
75g
plain flour
100g
beaten free range eggs or 2 medium
50g
flaked almonds (optional)
Morello
Cherries drained overnight, reserve the light syrup and reduce. Add
the reduced cherry syrup to 100g of icing sugar a bit at a time, you
won't need all the syrup.
Start
by making your sweet pastry and lining a prepared fluted flan tin or
whatever pie tin you have. Now make your frangipane and fold in the
morello cherries spread the frangipane cherry mix into your lined tin
and smooth evenly, bake for around 40 minutes until golden brown.
Allow to cool for 20 minutes then remove outer tin, leave to cool
completely before removing the tin base. Make up your hot cherry
icing then drizzle over the Morello Cherry frangipane, allow to set
then portion up and serve with custard, cream or on its own. If your short of time then you can dust with icing sugar or eat as is.
The resulting flavour is a mixture of the sour morello cherries and subtle almond frangipane. Do bear in mind that the morello cherries will still retain a lot of their natural juices so the flan will be moist. Best eaten on the day but will keep for a couple of days in a sealed container.
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