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.
© Anna Can Do It!
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!
© Anna Can Do It!
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?
