The classic recipe for the cake "Drunken Cherry" combines rich and dense chocolate cakes, interlaid with cream cream with the addition of cherries, previously fattened in alcohol. In this material, we will analyze just a couple of recipes of this time-tested treat: with a classic creamy and chocolate cream.
Traditional recipe for the cake "Drunken Cherry"
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- coffee - 115 ml;
- butter - 95 g;
- chocolate - 95 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- kefir - 110 ml;
- milk - 55 ml;
- vanilla - 1 teaspoon;
- flour - 375 g;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
- cocoa powder - 45 g.
For cherries:
- cherries (without pits) - 410 g;
- honey - 45 ml;
- bourbon - 55 ml;
- water 190 ml;
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- sugar - 115 g.
For cream:
- cream for whipping - 245 ml;
- cream cheese - 110 g;
- powdered sugar - 25 g.
Preparation
Start by making a biscuit, or more specifically, by mixing all the available dry ingredients from the list. Separately, melt the chocolate with butter and coffee. Eggs beat with yogurt and vanilla. When the chocolate mixture is slightly cooled, beat it with the egg mixture and pour into the dry ingredients. The mixed dough is divided in three and bake each of the cakes for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Hot cakes soak with syrup.
For the syrup, mix honey, water and bourbon, bring to a boil, add sugar and anise. Put in the boiling syrup of cherries and cook until soft, about 7 minutes. Then take the berries, and continue to simmer the syrup for another 20 minutes. Lubricate them with cakes.
Cream for the cake "Drunk Cherry" is prepared the easiest. For him, whipped cream with sugar powder and combine with cream cheese. Spread each of the cooled cakes with cream, put cherries on top and collect the cake together. In order to give the delicacy a modern look, do not cover his side with cream, but leave the cake "naked."
Cake "Drunken Cherry" in chocolate - a classic recipe
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- eggs - 9 pcs .;
- sugar - 285 g;
- flour - 210 g;
- cocoa powder - 70 g.
For chocolate cream:
- milk - 245 ml;
- egg yolks - 50 g;
- sugar - 55 g;
- chocolate - 115 g.
For cream:
- cream for whipping - 420 ml;
- granulated sugar - 65 g.
For cherries:
- cherries - 210 g;
- cognac - 75 ml.
Preparation
Before you make a cake "Drunken Cherry", pour the cherries with cognac for a couple of hours.
For a biscuit, whisk the eggs and sugar in the cream, gently mix the lush mass with cocoa and flour. Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees, and after cooling, divide into three parts.
For a creamy cream, whip the sugar and cream, and then mix with the cherries.
For the chocolate cream, pour the yolks beaten with sugar with hot milk, put on a plate and cook until thick, stirring. Mix the hot cream with the chocolate crumb, melting it.
Collect the cake together, greasing the cream with cream cream, collecting them together and covering with a layer of chocolate cream.