Chocolate Cherry cake

Cake for chocolate lovers. The combination of cherries and chocolate is an insanely delicious combination! It is simply impossible to resist such a cake!
Julia M.Author avatar
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Winner of the contest Best Recipe of the Week May 20-26

Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 8 % 4 g
Fats 37 % 18 g
Carbohydrates 55 % 27 g
276 kcal
GI: 15 / 0 / 85

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 d
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    To make a chocolate sponge cake, take chilled eggs. Add sugar to them and whisk everything together with a mixer until an airy, fluffy mass. To beat the eggs well, the whipping bowl and the whisk should be dry and fat-free. Otherwise, the whipped mass will not have the necessary pomp.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    While the eggs are being beaten, combine the butter and milk. Bring the mixture to a boil so that the butter melts.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    In the beaten eggs, gently whisk in the hot milk mixture and flour. Add everything in turn, in 3-4 approaches. Add cocoa and soda. Try to mix carefully so as not to bring down the existing splendor too much.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Grease the biscuit baking dish with butter or cover with baking paper. Pour the finished dough into this mold. Put it to bake in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 50-60 minutes. The shape will fit in a diameter of 20-22 cm.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Cool the finished biscuit and cut it into 2-3 cakes.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Defrost the cherries for the filling. Drain the excess liquid. The resulting juice can be soaked in cake cakes.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    To prepare the cream, take heavy cream with a fat content of at least 33%. Start whipping them at medium speed. Gradually add powdered sugar. Continue to beat the cream until a stable, fluffy mass is obtained. Just be careful - just miss a little and the cream will turn over and discard the water. The main thing is to stop the mixer in time.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Soak each chocolate cake cake with cherry juice. Brush with buttercream and lay out the cherry berries. So layer all the cakes with cream and berries.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Assemble the cake. The top and sides are also lubricated with cream. Try to make the surface more even. Put the cake in the refrigerator for a few hours so that it freezes well and gets soaked.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    For the glaze, combine the broken chocolate with cream. Heat, stirring constantly, so that the chocolate melts. Then add a little butter. Mix it up. Decorate the top of the cake with chocolate icing, letting the chocolate flow down the sides a little.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Have a nice tea party!

If the cake is prepared only for an adult tea party, then cherry liqueur can be used as an impregnation.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Milk-nut chocolate - 542   kcal/100g
  • Nutty chocolate - 580   kcal/100g
  • Porous milk chocolate - 506   kcal/100g
  • Creamy chocolate - 560   kcal/100g
  • Chocolate - 550   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Cocoa powder - 374   kcal/100g
  • Cream 35% - 337   kcal/100g
  • Cream 40% - 362   kcal/100g
  • Powdered sugar - 374   kcal/100g
  • Baking soda - 0   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g
  • Frozen cherry - 46   kcal/100g

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