A couple of weeks ago I took the train out to East Lothian to spend a day with two of the coolest ladies I know. I don't get to see them nearly as much as I would like, but I had the day off and LF to take care of the pups so I jumped at a chance to go gossip, drink tea and make some cake. I had thought about trying to do some kind of recipe post with these photos, but explanatory posts have never been my thing. All we did was slightly alter a basic sponge recipe by adding amaretto cherries and a little bit of almond essence. The final product was a little bit flat but absolutely delicious. Perfect for an Autumn afternoon.

Baking is not one of my natural skills so we did a bunch of research to make sure our cake didn't end up too wet due to the cherries. Naturally I didn't help and instead got in everyone's way by trying to photograph everything - I wonder how annoying it is to be friends with a blogger.

And the final product! As I said it didn't rise as much as we were hoping, but it was absolutely delicious. Final step; eat and/or Instagram. Yum.