Cherry Chocolate Cake with Rum Cream
This cherry chocolate cake contains a really small amount of butter in comparison to your usual cake but the yoghurt and cherries make it nice and juicy. Check out the video below to see all the steps.
Ingredients
300g flour
150g sugar
2 eggs
200g yoghurt
1 can of cherries
100g dark chocolate
50g dark chocolate for the glaze
100 g melted butter & butter for greasing the baking tray
2 1/2 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
pinch of salt
For the rum cream:
200g double cream
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp rum
Method
With a hand mixer blend eggs, yoghurt, sugar and vanilla extract for 1 minute.
Chop chocolate into small pieces and drain cherries through a sieve.
In a second bowl stir flour, baking powder and salt.
Add chocolate and cherries to the flour and mix under with a spoon.
Melt butter and stir it into your first bowl then mix all ingredients together.
Grease a cake pan with butter and add the cake dough.
Bake on 175 degrees for 1 hour.
When the cake has cooled down, glaze the cake with 50g dark melted chocolate.
Serve with rum cream: In a bowl mix sugar, rum and double cream with a hand mixer until whipped.
Enjoy!
