Chocolate Cherry Cake: Rich, moist and dense chocolate cake with cherry and vanilla cream filling layers and creamy, fluffy chocolate ganache frosting.
Perfect for Easter, Birthday, Anniversary or any other celebration.
This killer chocolate cherry cake is so rich, unbelievably moist, but thankfully not too sweet, the cherry filling add a little sourness, it complements the dense chocolate and the creamy chocolate ganache frosting adds the whole cake silky, airy cover.
Easter is coming, I decorated my cake with colorful egg-shape candies, decor sugar and cherries; the more color the better!
Since it don’t have a complicated decoration, it’s really fun to make, so it can be a great holiday activity with the kids.
Let them decorate it!
So it’s not my easiest or healthiest recipe, but believe me, it’s worth to try out!
Chocolate Cherry Cake
Ingredients
- Chocolate Cake:
- 1 cup Butter
- 2 large Eggs
- 2 cups Sugar
- 1/2 cup unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 2 cups Flour
- 1/2 cup Sour Cream
- 1 cup Milk
- 1 tsp Vinegar
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- Cherry Cream Filling:
- 2 cups Cherry Juice
- 2 cups Cherry * leave a few cherries for the decoration
- 1 pack Vanilla/Cream flavor Pudding Powder
- 1/4 cup Sugar
- Vanilla Cream Filling:
- 2 cups Milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 pack Vanilla flavor Pudding Powder
- 2 large Eggs whipped separately
- Chocolate Ganache Frosting:
- 200 gr Chocolate
- 1 tbsp Coconut Oil
- 250 gr Whipping Cream
- 250 gr Mascarpone
- Decoration:
- Cherries
- Easter egg candies/chocolates
- Decor sugar/candies
Instructions
- Chocolate Cake:
- Pre heat the oven.
- Melt the butter.
- Beat the eggs with the sugar, then slowly pour the butter on them with constant mixing.
- Add the sour cream, then pour the milk on the mixture.
- Sift the flour, the cocoa powder, the baking powder and the baking soda on the wet ingredients.
- Add the vinegar.
- Mix everything together.
- Pour the mixture to a baking tin or pan.
- Bake it on middle-low heat for 30-40 minutes.
- Cherry Cream Filling:
- While the cake is baking, you can make the fillings. Mix the pudding powder and the sugar with the cherry juice.
- Cook it, but just before the pudding thickens up, add the cherries.
- Let it cool.
- Vanilla Cream Filling:
- Mix the milk with the pudding powder.
- Beat the egg yolks with the half of the sugar and the egg whites with the remaining half.
- Cook the pudding, when it thickens, add the yolks, then the whites.
- Mix them well.
- Let it cool.
- Chocolate Ganache Frosting:
- After the cake came out of the oven, let it cool. While it's chill, make the frosting.
- Stir the mascarpone to lighten it up.
- Add the whipping cream and whip them together.
- Melt the chocolate with the coconut oil.
- Pour the chocolate to the mascarpone-whipped cream mixture with constant mixing.
- Cut the cake in halves, layer the creams, first the vanilla, then the cherry.
- Cover the cake with the ganache frosting.
- Decorate it with cherries, Easter egg candies or chocolates and decor sugar/candies.
Since it’s so rich and dense, serve it in thin slices! 🙂
- Do you like chocolate cakes?
- How do you decorate your cake?
- Do you use seasonal decoration?
- What was the most rich and moist cake you ever made/ate?
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