Pink Pig Cherry Cake

My daughter's 1st birthday cake - and her 10th. A small cake that tastes great even when it isn't covered in lurid pink icing.

• Ready In: 1 hr 30 mins
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 115  g self raising flour, sieved
• 75  g plain flour, sieved
• 50  g  ground almonds
• 175  g margarine
• 175  g caster sugar
• 3  medium eggs
• 175  g  glace cherries, chopped
•  plain flour, to cover cherry

Directions

1. Place flour, almonds, margarine, sugar and eggs into a bowl and beat together with a wooden spoon until glossy (about 1 - 2 minutes), toss cherries in a little plain flour and add to mixture. Mix inches.
2. Turn mixture into a 17.8 cm (7")greased and lined deep round cake tin. Bake in a pre-heated oven 160C/325F/Gas Mark 3 for 1 - 1/1/4 hours until top is springy to touch. Remove from tin, place on a wire rack and leave it to cool completely.