Dark chocolate and amarena cherries traybake - recipe
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Prepare
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Serves
12 -
Cook
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Skill
Medium
Ingredients
For the cake
- 300 g Dark chocolate
- 150 g Butter (unsalted) softened
- 100 g Unrefined golden caster sugar
- 80 g Unrefined dark muscovado sugar
- 115 g Plain white flour
- 4 Egg(s) (free range)
- 1 Egg yolk(s) (free range)
- 115 g Almonds (ground)
- 1 Salt
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 150 g Amarena cherries chopped in half
For the icing
- 100 g Dark chocolate
- 50 g Butter (unsalted)
- 2 tbsp Icing sugar
For the decoration
- Amarena cherries a handful
- Icing sugar to dust
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1
Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan, 350°F, gas mark 4). Butter and line a baking tray.
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2
Melt the butter and chocolate in a bowl in a heatproof bowl over simmering water or in a microwave, stirring occasionally.
For this step you'll need:
- 50g Butter (unsalted)
- 100g Dark chocolate
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3
Off the heat, add both sugars, mixing until well combined. Add a pinch of salt to bring out the flavours.
For this step you'll need:
- 100g Unrefined golden caster sugar
- 80g Unrefined dark muscovado sugar
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4
Add the eggs one at the time until the mixture becomes glossy. Add the almonds, salt, flour, baking powder and cherries and mix well.
For this step you'll need:
- 4 Egg(s) (free range)
- 1 Egg yolk(s) (free range)
- 115g Almonds (ground)
- 1 Salt
- 115g Plain white flour
- 1tsp Baking powder
- 150g Amarena cherries a handful
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5
Pour the mixture into the tin, level it off and bake for 20 – 25 minutes until set. Leave in the tin to cool.
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6
For the icing, melt the butter and chocolate together in a heatproof bowl over simmering water then mix in the icing sugar.
For this step you'll need:
- 100g Dark chocolate
- 50g Butter (unsalted)
- 2 tbsp Icing sugar to dust
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7
Trim the cake, then spread the icing on the top of the cold chocolate cake, decorate with a serrated knife, and allow to set.
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8
Finally cut into squares and decorate with cherries and dust with a little icing sugar.
For this step you'll need:
- Amarena cherries a handful
- Icing sugar to dust