Are you waiting for guests, getting ready for the holiday, but don’t know what to cook for dessert? Then read our article, where we will talk in detail about how to make chocolate-cherry cake. There are many recipes for this sweet treat, so choose the one that you liked the most, and feel free to get down to business.
Useful Tips
Before proceeding to the description of how to make chocolate-cherry cake, we would like to dwell on some important points. If you are still a beginner, then be sure to read our tips.
- First of all, you should carefully study the recipe and purchase all the necessary products.
- For the filling, you can take fresh, frozen or canned cherries. Before cooking the berries must be processed and, if necessary, remove the seeds.
- So that the biscuit does not donkey, after cooking, you do not need to immediately remove it from the oven.
- If the base needs to be cut into cakes, it is best to do this with a nylon line while the dough is still warm.
Below you can read a detailed description of how to make a chocolate dessert.
Chocolate Cake with Cherry and Cognac
The recipe for this dessert is so simple that even the most inexperienced chef can cope with it. If you decide to surprise your second half, then make a chocolate-cherry cake with cognac. To start, you should take as a basis:
- Beat with a mixer 150 grams of sugar and three eggs.
- In the resulting mixture, put a glass of sour cream, a teaspoon of baking soda vinegar and two tablespoons of honey.
- When the ingredients are mixed, add one glass of sifted flour and two tablespoons of cocoa to them.
- Lubricate the baking dish with oil, pour the dough into it and bake the cake until ready. When the base for the cake has cooled, cut it lengthwise into two unequal parts.
- Leave the smaller one for the base, and cut the larger into cubes and pour cognac (six tablespoons) for impregnation.
- Rinse fresh cherries, sort them out and free from stones. If you took frozen berries, then they should be thawed, and squeeze out the excess juice.
How to make cream for a cake
- Melt sixty grams of dark chocolate in a water bath by adding two tablespoons of water to them.
- Beat the mixture with a mixer with two chicken eggs and a tablespoon of sugar.
- Boil 250 milliliters of milk in a suitable bowl and pour the chocolate mixture into it.
- Add 50 grams of butter, two tablespoons of flour to the cream and simmer it until it thickens.
Cake decoration
When the preparatory phase is completed, you can proceed to the "assembly" of the dessert. To do this, smear the bottom cake with cherry juice, lay out the berries, and on top of them - dough cubes mixed with cream. Refrigerate the cake for one hour. Pound two tablespoons of boiled condensed milk with 50 grams of butter and coat the surface of the cake with the resulting mass. Then pour the melted chocolate over the dessert and place it in the refrigerator again. A few hours before serving, the chocolate-cherry cake can be decorated with berries or nuts.
After we have examined in detail one example of cooking a cake, we can move on to other recipes.
Chocolate Cake with Cherry Cream
Here is a dessert recipe that is prepared very simply and quickly using a slow cooker. If you are the happy owner of this miracle device, then be sure to try making a delicious chocolate cake. Read the instructions carefully and prepare with us:
- Cut 150 grams of butter into slices and let them stand for a while at room temperature. Sprinkle butter with 50 grams of grated chocolate.
- Whisk four yolks with 150 grams of sugar and add them to the butter. Mix the products until smooth.
- Beat the whites in a thick foam and put to the rest of the products.
- Sift 120 grams of flour into a bowl and add a bag of baking powder.
- Stir all the ingredients until the dough is smooth. Then pour it into the bowl of the appliance, pre-lubricated with oil, and bake in the “Baking” mode for 50 minutes.
- When the biscuit is ready, carefully remove it and let cool.
- To prepare the cream, put in a bowl 300 grams of thawed and squeezed cherries, fill it with 250 grams of sugar and set the "Multi-Cook" mode for two hours.
- Whip 350 grams of cream with three tablespoons of powdered sugar and put the mixture in the refrigerator.
- Cut the cooled sponge cake lengthwise into three parts. Smear the first with berry syrup, spread half the cherries and brush with half the cream. Put the second cake on top, repeat the operation and close the structure with the third cake.
- Make a glaze of 100 grams of melted grated chocolate and 100 grams of cream. Pour the cake with it, and sprinkle almond petals on top.
Chocolate cherry cake is almost ready. It remains to place the treat in the refrigerator for impregnation for a couple of hours, and after that it can be served immediately to the table.
Chocolate cherry cake with sour cream
This delicate dessert is also known as Pancho. If you want to please relatives with an original cake, then carefully read the following recipe:
- Begin to whip six proteins with a mixer into a strong foam. Gradually pour two cups of sugar to them, without ceasing to mix. Next, enter the yolks and four tablespoons of cocoa.
- Sift through a sieve two cups of white flour and add them to the dough along with slaked lemon juice soda. Stir the products.
- Pour the finished dough into a greased mold and send it to bake in a preheated oven.
- To prepare the cream, pour 800 grams of sour cream into a separate container and add a glass of sugar to it. Whip the cream until it is airy and light.
- Cool the finished biscuit, cut a cake two centimeters high from it, and cut the rest of the dough into a cube.
- 200 grams of cherry process and remove the seeds.
- Soak the cake with berry juice, brush with cream, sprinkle with nuts and lay on it an even layer of some berries. Next, lay out the pieces of dough, which should be dipped in cream beforehand. Garnish the second tier with berries and nuts. Repeat the operation until you run out of food. Note that the finished cake should resemble a small cone.
- Pour the cake evenly with the remaining cream.
Dessert can be decorated with melted milk chocolate using a pastry bag or a simple plastic bag with a hole. Apply the pattern as you like best.
Chocolate cake with berry souffle
Fans of sweet desserts will certainly appreciate the chocolate-cottage cheese-cherry cake:
- To make the cake, mix 180 grams of flour, one egg, 100 grams of butter, 20 grams of cocoa and 60 grams of sugar. Bake the dough until cooked, cool it and, if necessary, adjust to the form in which you will cook the souffle.
- Melt 200 grams of dark chocolate in a water bath, and then cool it.
- Pound 500 grams of cottage cheese and mix it with a blender with 150 grams of butter. Make a syrup of 90 grams of sugar and 70 ml of water. Combine the ingredients, add two eggs to them and gently beat.
- Dilute 20 grams of gelatin in five tablespoons of water and set aside for a quarter of an hour. Then combine it with melted chocolate and curd.
- Put the souffle in a silicone mold, smooth it out, lay a layer of berries on top and cover it with a cake. Place the structure in the refrigerator for several hours.
- To cook ganache. melt 100 grams of milk chocolate and combine it with 60 ml of cream.
Take the chocolate cake with cherry souffle from the refrigerator, turn it over onto a dish, remove the form. pour the surface with ganache and garnish with sprigs of mint.
Chocolate dessert
Chocolate-cherry cake, the photo of which you can see above, is prepared as follows:
- Beat three eggs with a pinch of salt and a glass of sugar in a strong foam. Add to them 140 grams of flour, a bag of baking powder and mix everything thoroughly.
- Pour the dough into the mold, place it in the oven and bake until cooked.
- Remove the top crust from the cooled cake, dry it in the oven and crush it by hand.
- Defrost 400 grams of cherries, drain the excess juice and soak 20 grams of gelatin in it. When it swells, dissolve it in a water bath.
- Mix the berries with a glass of sugar and chop using a blender. Combine the resulting mixture with gelatin and place it in the refrigerator.
- Whisk 500 ml of thick cream and two tablespoons of liquor into a thick foam, and then mix them with the berry mass. Spread the resulting cream on the cake, sprinkle it with crumbs and grated chocolate. Put the dessert in the refrigerator for several hours.
When the cake is ready, put it on a dish and serve it with tea or coffee. You can also prepare a dessert in the evening to please your family during breakfast.
Cake without baking
If you love treating your loved ones with something delicious for breakfast, then read how to make a cherry-chocolate cake. Recipe:
- Grind 80 grams of rice cereal.
- Melt over low heat 100 grams of dark chocolate and 80 ml cream.
- Combine the ingredients and pour them to the bottom of the mold covered with cling film. Put the future dessert in the refrigerator.
- Separately mix four tablespoons of sugar, three tablespoons of starch, two tablespoons of orange juice and a little cinnamon. Bring the mixture to a boil and add 300 grams of thawed berries to it.
- Cool the cherry mass, put it on the chocolate mass and put it on the cold again.
By morning you will have a wonderful sweet dessert ready.
Conclusion
As you may have noticed, chocolate-cherry cake can be prepared in many ways. Some of them are more complicated than others, but even a novice culinary specialist can cope with their preparation if desired. Therefore, carefully read the recipes and strictly follow the instructions above.