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Chocolate Cherry Cake
Discover our Chocolate Cherry Cake recipe, a wonderfully flavoursome bake made with delicious fresh cherries.
Discover our Chocolate Cherry Cake recipe, a wonderfully flavoursome bake made with delicious fresh cherries.
Prep time
30 minutes
Cooking time
50 minutes
Servings
16
Difficulty
Medium
Ingredients
Ingredients
100 g good quality chocolate (85% cocoa solids)
200 g Stork tub
200 g caster sugar
4 medium eggs
300 g self-raising flour
2 rounded tablespoons (25g) cocoa powder
50ml semi skimmed milk
200g cherries (fresh, pitted cherries or a can, drained)
Instructions
how_make
Preheat oven to 180 °C 160 °C fan oven, Gas mark 4. Grease a 23cm springform tin and line with baking paper. Melt chocolate in microwave on low power or over a water bath.
Beat the Stork and sugar until light and creamy with an electric hand mixer. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in melted chocolate.
Mix flour and cocoa powder and stir into the mix, alternating with the milk.
Pour the batter into the prepared tin. Place cherries over the top and press them in slightly. Bake the chocolate cherry cake in preheated oven for 45-50 minutes. Test with a skewer, if no uncooked mix is sticking to the skewer, it is ready. Cool on wire rack.
