Dark Chocolate and Sour Cherry Cake
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Recipe type: Cake
Cuisine: Australian
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Serves: 8-10
 
An easy to make super-moist dark chocolate and sour cherry cake that doesn't require tricky ingredients or a complicated method.
Ingredients
  • 250gms dark chocolate (I used 70%) broken into bits
  • 250gms butter, chopped
  • ⅓ cup cream
  • 4 eggs at room temperature, separated
  • 1 cup castor sugar
  • ⅓ cup plain flour (for a GF cake use GF flour)
  • 200gms drained morello cherries
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 180C (375F).
  2. Grease and line a 20cm springform cake tin.
  3. Place chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl and melt over a saucepan of simmering water making sure the water doesn't touch the bowl. When smooth, remove from heat and stir in cream.
  4. Place egg yolks and sugar in a Kitchen Aid or similar and beat until pale and creamy.
  5. Pour in chocolate mixer and mix until well combined.
  6. Sift in flour and mix until combined.
  7. In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold into chocolate mixture.
  8. Pour cake batter into prepared pan. Scatter cherries on top of cake.
  9. Place in oven and cook for 50 minutes or until a skewer placed into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
  10. Allow to cool in the tin.
  11. Just prior to serving, dust with cocoa or icing sugar and decorate with extra cherries.
  12. Serve with cream or ice cream if desired.
Recipe by Hotly Spiced at http://hotlyspiced.com/dark-chocolate-and-sour-cherry-cake/