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Ingredients
For the cake:
- 100g softened butter, plus extra for greasing
- 200ml milk
- 1tbsp red wine vinegar
- 140ml double cream
- 2tbsp sugar
- 2 whole eggs
- 300g self raising flour, sifted
- 50g cocoa powder, sifted
- 1tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 225g golden caster sugar
- 225g plain chocolate
For the cherry syrup:
- 200g fresh cherries, stoned
- 150ml Kirsch
- Squeeze of lime juice
For the Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please icing :
- 100g plain chocolate
- 100g butter
- 50ml double cream
For the garnish:
- Punnet of clotted cream
Method
How to make Chocolate fudge cake with rich cherry syrup
1) Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4. Grease a 20cm cake tin and line with greaseproof paper.
2) Mix the milk, vinegar and double cream in a bowl. Place all the other cake ingredients into a large mixing bowl, add to the wet ingredients and beat with an electric hand Technique: Whisk Using light, rapid sweeping strokes to thicken or thoroughly combine ingredients. You can also use a whisk attachment attached to a food processor. I know this Teach me, please whisk until smooth. Pour the cake mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake for 1 hour .
3) Allow to cool, then remove the cake from the tin and place on a cooling rack.
4) For the syrup, mix the ingredients together. For the Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please icing , melt the chocolate and butter in a bain-marie, then beat in the cream.
5) Cut the cake in half and drizzle the syrup over both of the cut sides. Spread the
Technique:
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on top of the syrup, sandwich the cake together and spread the remaining
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icing
over the entire cake. Serve each
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Slice
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with dollop of clotted cream.