"Cherries, chocolate and lashings of fresh vanilla cream."
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Prep time 20mins
Cook time 40mins
Serves or Makes: 10
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Cake
ingredients
- 275 gram Caster Sugar
- 100 gram Unsalted Butter
- 50 gram Cocoa Powder
- 100 milliliter Hot Water
- 3 Eggs
- 175 gram Self Raising Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
Chocolate Buttercream
ingredients
- 100 gram Milk Chocolate
- 200 gram Unsalted Butter
- 400 gram Icing Sugar
- 2 tablespoon Milk
Whipped Cream
ingredients
- 200 milliliter Double Cream
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
Other
ingredients
- 4 tablespoon Cherry Jam
- Handful Fresh Cherries
- 1 piece Chocolate
Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 180c.
Step 2
Now, in a bowl cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. You can use a stand mixer or beat with a wooden spoon.
Step 3
Once combined, add the water to the cocoa powder and mix. Then pour into the butter mixture.
Step 4
Slowly mix in the three, eggs one at a time.
Step 5
Then a tablespoon at a time add the baking powder and flour and mix to combine.
Step 6
Using a little butter, grease the cake tin. I use two small 15cm cake tins which means the cake is taller, but you can use a wider cake tin.
Step 7
Split the mixture in half and bake in the two tins. I bake for 35 minutes but if you use a larger cake tin it may take slightly less time. Check the cake after 25 minutes by using a skewer to check if the centre is cooked.
Step 8
Once baked, remove and allow to cool completely. Once cooled, slice the cakes in half. Leaving you with four cake slices.
Step 9
Now, make the chocolate buttercream, Firstly you want to melt the chocolate using a microwave or bain marie method (see tip). Once melted, add to a bowl with the butter and icing sugar and cream together. You can add the milk if the buttercream is too thick.
Step 10
Lastly, whisk the double cream and vanilla until it forms lovely peaks.
Step 11
Now, the fun of assembling the cake. In the same cake tin that you cooked the cake, add a layer of cling film. It should come up the sides of the cake tin.
Step 12
Add the bottom layer of the cake into the tin, followed by half of the chocolate buttercream. Then add a second layer of cake. Now add two tablespoons of the cherry jam and spread across the cake. Followed by a layer of the whipped cream. Then repeat this again with the next two layers.
Step 13
Top with fresh cherries and a grating of chocolate.