Chocolate cherry cake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   To prepare the cake, we will need canned pitted cherries and syrup, cocoa powder for sponge dough and chocolate for sprinkling the cake, sour cream for cream, as well as sugar, powdered sugar, flour, baking powder and eggs. We take the number of products according to the list.

2. Step 2:

   

   Immediately prepare a baking dish for the sponge cake base, you can line the mold with foil and grease with vegetable oil. The foil is very easily separated from the finished biscuit.

3. Step 3:

   

   Drive eggs into a container, pour sugar and vanilla.

4. Step 4:

   

   Beat eggs with sugar until the mass triples for about 3-4 minutes at high speed of the mixer.

5. Step 5:

   

   Then reduce the speed of the mixer and pour cocoa powder into the egg mass.

6. Step 6:

   

   After the cocoa powder, pour the flour with baking powder into the mass.

7. Step 7:

   

   Knead the biscuit dough for a short time, half a minute is enough until smooth.

8. Step 8:

   

   Pour the sponge dough into a pre-prepared mold.

9. Step 9:

   

   Place the form with chocolate sponge dough in a cold oven and turn it on, setting the temperature to 180 degrees. Bake the sponge cake for 55 minutes. This is not much, since the cake sponge cake should turn out to be high and well baked inside.

10. Step 10:

    

    We take the form with the baked biscuit out of the oven not immediately, but let it stand for half an hour in the oven turned off with the door open so that it cools down gradually. Then we move the mold to the grill and let it cool completely.

11. Step 11:

    

    Remove the cooled biscuit from the mold and release it from the foil.

12. Step 12:

    

    Cut the biscuit into two cakes with a long sharp knife, the top cake should be slightly thinner.

13. Step 13:

    

    Carefully remove the cut top of the biscuit.

14. Step 14:

    

    The slice of the top cake is evenly watered with cherry syrup.

15. Step 15:

    

    Put the bottom cake on a dish and carefully cut the crumb along the inner circumference with the tip of a knife.

17. Step 16:

    

    Then we use a spoon to select the crumb from the bottom cake.

18. Step 17:

    

    The cake base should be in the form of a shallow container, as in the photo.

19. Step 18:

    

    We put the crumb in a container.

20. Step 19:

    

    The base of the cake is filled with a layer of canned cherries.

21. Step 20:

    

    Now we are preparing the cream. Combine sour cream with powdered sugar and vanilla, mix with a spoon.

22. Step 21:

    

    Then add a thickener to the sour cream mixture and beat the cream with a mixer for 2-3 minutes.

23. Step 22:

    

    Combine the finished sour cream with the crumb, leaving a little cream for the top of the cake. Mix the crumb with sour cream.

24. Step 23:

    

    Spread the cream mixture with the crumb on top of the canned cherries.

25. Step 24:

    

    Cream mixture is well leveled with a spoon.

26. Step 25:

    

    Cover the cream mixture with a cake soaked in syrup on top.

27. Step 26:

    

    Grease the top of the cake with the remaining cream.

28. Step 27:

    

    Lay out the cherries on the cream-smeared surface of the cake.

29. Step 28:

    

    Grate the chocolate.

30. Step 29:

    

    Sprinkle the top of the cake liberally with grated chocolate.

31. Step 30:

    

    Chocolate Cherry cake is ready, decorate it with fresh mint leaves and serve it on the table.