From the Kitchen: Lemon–Corn Flour Cake

With dried cherries in syrup.

There is a Giada cake lodged in my mind because my mom made it many times, and she usually did not like Giada’s recipes. It was this almond cake, made with cornmeal and almond paste. This cake that I’m sharing today doesn’t include almonds—though almond extract would be fabulous, if you have some—and it has purple corn flour from Peru rather than cornme…