Morello cherry & almond traybake - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 300g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
• 300g golden caster sugar
• 375g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
• zest 1 lemon (save the juice for the icing)
• 85g ground rice or ground almonds
• 4 eggs, lightly beaten
• 25g marzipan, chilled until firm, then grated
• 2 tsp almond extract
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 3 tbsp whole milk
• 200g morello glacé cherries, washed, dried and quartered
• 500g fondant icing sugar
• juice 1 lemon (from the lemon above)
• 50g marzipan
• red and green food colouring gels (we used Dr Oetker)