St George's Day Celebration Cake

St George's Day... a day to be proud to be English. So celebrate through your witty humour, avoiding eye contact on the tube and eating a slice of this delicious cake. I'm on a bit of a health kick at the moment so I've used a sugar substitute instead of normal sugar, but if you'd prefer you can use 200g of caster sugar instead.

Ingredients

• 20g sugar substitute
• 200g butter
• 200g self raising flour (sifted)
• 4 eggs (beaten)
• 100g glacé cherries (chopped)

Start by preheating the oven to 200 degrees and preparing (greasing and lining) 2 baking tins. I wanted a square cake and as ever I had to improvise so I used a rectangular baking dish instead and then cut my baked cake in half once it had cooled. Mix all of the ingredients together in a large bowl and then pour it into your baking tin.

Now bake for approximately 20 minutes or until a light golden brown. Test by putting a knife or cake tester in the middle of the cake, if it comes out without any cake mixture left on it then it's done! Now leave to cool on the side.

Once cool, sandwich the two halves of cake together with a generous helping of strawberry jam. Now make some plain icing and cover the top of the cake. Finally, ice a red cross in the centre by mixing some icing sugar, water and red food colouring.

And that's it. So now you can sit back and think about how great it is to be English, whilst tucking in to this tasty treat!