Cookbook Recipes

A no cook, no brainer, all delicious cake! Very chocolatie with black cherries to give the fresh and sweet taste. If you have no time to bake a cake and need something fast, this is good.

Ingredients:

200g dark chocolate, chopped

200ml whipping cream (prefer thickened cream)

1 can black cherries in syrup

60ml kirsch, brandy or rum (if you don’t have them, the dessert will still taste good but it’s alot nicer with liquer.)

20 sponge fingers

Method:

Place chocolate in a stainless steel bowl. In a small saucepan, bring the cream just to boil and immediately pour over chocolate. Let stand for a few minutes and then stir until smooth. Chill covered for 1 hour.

Drain cherries, reserving syrup. Stir liquer into syrup.

Take a 1.5 litres loaf tin and line with plastic wrap, leaving a generous overhang. Dip sponge fingers in the syrup mixture and place a layer of sponge finger in the pan, trimming to fit.

Whisk chocolate by hand until slightly paler and spoon half into the loaf tin. Scatter cherries on top. spoon remaining chocolate mixture over.
Place another layer of sponge fingers dipped in syrup mixture on top of the chocolate. Fold plastic overhang over cake. Freeze until very cold, at least 3 hours.

To serve, fold back plastic wrap, unmould onto a plate. Peel away plastic wrap. Slice with a sharp knife.

Serves 8 normal people or 5 chocoholics

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