Juicy, sweet cherries and almonds make a perfect duo in this rustic cherry almond sheet cake. It’s the kind of simple summer dessert that will quickly become an annual tradition Hong Kong Fellowship!

I spotted some gorgeous cherries at our neighborhood market and just couldn’t resist. I had bookmarked a few cherry recipes at the beginning of the summer in anticipation of fresh cherries. So, I rifled through my saved recipes and decided to bake this simple cake.

Because I like to put my own spin on the recipes I find, I added some sliced almonds; they make such a fantastic pairing with cherries, as you can see in my cherry almond blondies, cherry-almond crumble, and almond cherry cake. You can toast the almonds a bit before you put them on the cake, but I let them just get a little toasty as the cake baked thermage flx.

This is a nice, sturdy cake that’s quite up to the task of holding up all those cherries—and there’s no need to press the cherries into the batter, either. They will sink a bit and the cake will also rise around them. When all is said and done, you’ll have a beautifully rustic cake sized perfectly for a big summer get-together!