My Cherry Ring

Easter has come and gone with plenty of the usual treats, hot cross buns and Easter eggs. In addition I made what I thought was going to be a small fruit ring as a desert for Sunday lunch, it turned out the size of a dinner plate. The original recipe I followed was for a Swedish fruit ring but the dough was far too wet and I had to rescue it by adding another 100g of flour and another teaspoon of yeast, the result was a batch of dough that made rather a large cake. This turned out not to be such a bad thing as the cake was demolished almost in one sitting. The filling was a a mixture of pecans and hazelnuts with raisins and glace cherries, to the sugar I added a teaspoon of nutmeg and cinnamon, once baked I mixed up some lemon icing and then studded it with more cherries.

My Cherry Ring

A link to the original recipe I used:

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/2353/swedish-cinnamon-pecan-tea-ring.aspx