The Meg Rivers Cake Club, and win a cherry cake!
This week, we had a very special delivery. I’m one of those really sad people who always gets excited when the postie knocks, and this week it was completely justified as we got cake in the post! I know! Meg Rivers is an artisan bakery from the Cotswolds who send all sorts of delicious goodies by post, and they very kindly sent me one of their fabulously retro cherry cakes. It’s deliciously moist, studded with glistening red glacé cherries and a lovely texture too. It’s one of the cakes that they send out as part of the Meg Rivers Cake Club (I mean, forget beauty boxes, I’d much rather get a monthly cake, wouldn’t you?), the perfect pressie and just in time for Mother’s Day too.
Cake in the post, you say?
Well, the clue’s in the title really - with the Meg Rivers Cake Club, you can purchase a Cake Club subscription for 6 months or a year, and every month, the lucky recipient will get a delicious, freshly baked new cake through the post. The wrapping is utterly gorgeous (another reason why it would make an absolutely brilliant Mother’s Day gift) and the cakes are such great quality too. You can also send one off cakes, traybakes and biscuits - I’m always looking for great thank you pressies and I can’t think of a better way of showing someone your appreciation than sending them delicious brownies or biscuits, can you?
About Meg Rivers Artisan Bakery
Meg Rivers is a long established, award winning family artisan bakery. They produce delicious, high quality cakes that you can find in places like Harrods and the Buckingham Palace shop, as well as on websites such as Ocado. Meg Rivers started her business in 1986 when she began baking cakes in her kitchen at home. The unique mail order business was so successful that Meg won Businesswoman of the Year in 1991. Sadly Meg passed away, but the business is now run by family friend, Julian Day and his daughters.
The Meg Rivers cherry cake
Such a gorgeous, retro beauty, this cake is moist and buttery and just perfect for Spring. If you fancy getting creative, the lovely team at Meg Rivers have very generously shared the recipe for the cherry cake so you can recreate it at home:
Meg Rivers cherry cake
Serves 6-8
400g whole glacé cherries, rinsed, plus 10 to decorate
2 tbsp Kirsch
150g salted butter, softened
120g caster sugar
2 eggs
2 tbsp oil
75g self raising flour
120g plain flour
75g ground almonds
35g finely chopped almonds
Preheat the oven to 150C/gas 2. Grease and line a 15cm/6″ round cake tin.
Put the cherries in a bowl with the Kirsch and set aside to marinate.
In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, beating between each addition, then stir in the oil.
Add the flours and the ground and chopped almonds, then fold together. Stir in the cherries (remember to reserve 10 for the top).
Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake for 60 minutes. Remove from the oven, top with the remaining cherries, then return to the oven for a further 20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
Allow to cool for 30 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.
Win a delicious Meg Rivers Cherry Cake
Fancy trying out the cherry cake for yourself? Just like the Meg Rivers Facebook page, then have a look on the Meg Rivers website and leave a comment below to tell me which Meg Rivers cake flavour you’d choose for your desert island cake. One lucky winner will win a Meg Rivers cherry cake in one of their lovely tins delivered to your door, right in time for Easter! Usual English Mum terms and conditions apply and the competition closes at 9am on 23rd March 2018. Go, go, go!
Win a deliciou Meg Rivers Cake Club cherry cake!
This post has been created in partnership with Meg Rivers.
Congratulations to Louise Delport whose comment was chosen at random as the winner. Email on its way to you!
I think the Clementine & Almond Cake would be delicious!
The cherry cake
The yummy cherry cake!
chocolate cake
love Simnel cake so thats what I would have
English Fruit Cake
Clementine and almond sounds amazing
Ginger Cake I think
I think the Clementine & Almond Cake sounds utterly delicious!
The chocolate cake of course! Although the elderflower and gooseberry sounds delish too.
The Elderflower & Gooseberry Cake sounds divine!
ginger cake Mmmm
Lemon drizzle tray bake or cherry
Can I not have a slice of each??Hard hard choice but imagining the pops of juicy sweetness as you hit a cherry just edged that ahead of the others. Not that I would decline a slice of any!
Hi Louise,
Congratulations, your comment was chosen at random as the winner of the cake giveaway. I’ll email you and get your address 🙂
HUGE THANKS! Totally delighted, doing a cherry cake dance of happiness as I type!?
For a desert island it would have to be the chocolate cake but would love to try the elderflower & gooseberry cake
cherry cake!
The fruit cake
Chocolate cake.
Ginger cake for me.
The Ginger Cake looks delicous - although it was a hard choice as they all look fantastic :o)
If I HAD to choose it would be the Clementine & Almond Cake. Sounds absolutely LUSH!
chocolate cake for me - always 🙂
Clementine and almond x
Clementine and almond cake
The Cherry sink cake
A simnel cake - haven’t had one for years and it would be perfect for Easter Tea for all the family to share.
The cherry cake,
English fruit cake
Clementine & Almond
Meg Rivers Cherry Cake - it’d remind me vividly of the ye olde cherry tree back home!
Clementine and Almond
The cherry cake
Clementine and Almond
There is a delcious walnut topped cake (coffee & walnut?) in Cake Club - Monthly Cake Subscription photo. I adore this flavour, it would be the one I would choose.
English fruit cake
Rich English Fruit Cake!!
Clementine and Almond sounds absolutely delicious. xx
cherry cake sounds yummy
Chocolate 🙂
Definitely the chocolate cake
The chocolate cake!
The Elderflower and Gooseberry sounds so unusual and delicious too
The simnel cake looks so tempting. Mot that id turn any of them down. They all look so moist and delicious
Rich English Fruit Cake
Would love the chocolate cake
Clementine and Almond
English fruit cake
the chocolate cake!
Clementine and almond cake sounds amazing
Definitely the chocolate cake!
oooh choc cake!!
I’d choose the ginger cake
I’d choose the chocolate cake!
Clementine & Almond
The Simnel cake for Easter
Ginger cake looks delicious
I can’t resist a chocolate cake x
Clementine & Almond would be my choice. I have liked the Meg Rivers FB page.
Cherry Cake please!
Cherry Please!
I’d love to try the rich english fruit cake 🙂 Love a classic fruit cake
Simnel cake - considering the time of year.
Cherry cake
Cherry cake
The Rich English Fruit Cake looks delicious. I’m a sucjer for any came, though, lol!
It would have to be the chocolate cake ..
The Chocolate Cake 🙂
Rich English Fruit Cake
Elderflower and Gooseberry cake sounds absolutely delicious
Clementine and almond cake sound good to me. wish she did a lemon cake.
The Clementine & Almond cake gets my vote
The Elderflower and Gooseberry Cake sounds amazing xx
The Rich English Fruit Cake looks so yummy.
The Chocolate cake, it wouldn’t last long in our house
The Clementine and Almond one sounds fantastic.
Clementine and honey…but what a difficult choice!
The English fruit cake
I’d choose Clementine & Almond
I’d take the clementine and almond!
love that cherry cake
The Elderflower and Gooseberry Cake sounds delicious.
Chocolate Cake
Chocolate orange cheesecake
chocolate cake!
It would have to be the chocolate cake!
The Elderflower and Gooseberry looks and sounds delicious.
It would have to be the cherry cake as these flavours remind me of going to my grans and having cherry cakes for tea.
definitely the Clementine and almond, 2 of my favourite flavours. What’s not to like?!
i would have to say the rich English Fruit Cake
I would choose the clementine and almond cake
I cant choose lol my mouth was actually watering just trying! I do love cherry cake but Elderflower and gooseberry sounds exciting and something I havent tried before
love the sound of the Elderflower & Gooseberry cake
Clementine & Almond Cake
They all look terribly moreish but I would choose the simnel cake
Chocolate cake most definately
Im liking the chocolate cake
clementine and almond
I would choose the clementine and almond as they are two of my favourite flavours.
I do love a Simnel Cake - even when it’s not Easter!
Rich English Fruit Cake looks extremely moorish
Clementine and almond sounds delicious
Being a big chocoholic it has to be the chocolate cake
I’ve fallen in love with the cherry cake it looks delicious
Definitely the cherry cake - my partner is allergic to chocolate so cherry would be a brilliant treat
Elderflower and gooseberry ?
the chocolate cake
Hello. I’m not on Facebook, so can’t officially “Like” the Meg Rivers page (here’s my unofficial *thumbs up*) - Can I still enter?
Well, my “desert island cake” choice would be between Clementine & Almond cake and Ginger cake. Half of each, perhaps…?! 🙂
Clementine & Almond sounds absolutely delicious
Clementine & Almond Cake would be my choice
It would be the Chocolate Cake for me!
Hard to choose, but I would go for Rich English fruitcake
Love the cherry one
Rich English Fruit Cake would sadly be loved by all in our house (I say sadly because that means that there is less for me!)
The cherry cake as its so delicious
the cherry one for me
Ginger cake please
Oooooooh very tricky to choose just one and the selection of mini megs are calling me but if I must …………. it would have to be Clementine and almond for me.
Chocolate cake would see me through a desert island escape
The Clementine & Almond sounds lovely!
Rich English Fruit cake
Ginger cake love going on x
Ginger cake is one of my favourites, Mmmm
the ginger cake yummy
Rich English Fruit cake, mmm!
Love the look of the Mini Megs. If that’s cheating then the chocolate cake!
Ginger cake , gorgeous X
Clementine & Almond is making my mouth water!
Ginger cake is one of my favourites, it looks delicious
I love the sound of the Elderflower and Gooseberry cake; I’m sure I will love the taste as well.
The Cherry Cake sounds so so tempting
Ginger cake looks great
Elderflower and Gooseberry cake sounds yummy
Cherry cake is the best
Would love the Ginger
Cherry cake is my favourite!!
For my desert island cake I’d pick the Fruit Top Christmas Cake to make sure I had enough fruit and nuts to keep me going
Cherry Cake sounds so yummy and such a throw back to my childhood
oh yum, I would choose the Ginger Cake
Simnel cake looks perfect for Easter!???
love that cherry one!
the chocolate cake!