Today for you a delicious and very soft cherry and cocoa cake, perfect for breakfast and more. This cake is rich in cherries, in fact, to make it I used almost 600 g of pitted cherries. Of course, I’m lucky to have a cherry tree in the garden that gives us at least 10 kg of cherries every year, so I use them abundantly, but if you don’t have this fortune you can also use canned cherries. But now let’s see together how to prepare this delicious cake in the following recipe.
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Medium
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 12
- Cooking methods: Electric oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Spring, Summer
Ingredients
- 21 oz cherries (the weight refers to cherries with pits)
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 7 tbsp butter (soft)
- 7 oz yogurt (also cherry-flavored)
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 packet baking powder
Tools
- 1 Springform Pan 10 inch
- 1 Electric Whisk or manual
- 1 Pitter cherry pitter
Steps
Start the preparation of your cherry and cocoa cake by removing the pits from all the cherries. If you want, leave a couple whole just for the final decoration. Now continue by whisking the eggs with the sugar, then add the butter and continue by adding the yogurt alternating it with the flour, and finally the baking powder.
At this point, divide the batter into two equal parts and add the cocoa to one of them, mix until you have obtained a homogeneous cocoa batter. Then pour the cocoa batter into the previously buttered pan and level it. Now place 3/4 of the cherries on the batter side by side.
Then pour the remaining light batter and place the remaining cherries.
At this point, bake in a preheated static oven at 350°F and bake for about 25-35 minutes. It depends a lot on the power of your oven. If you notice that the surface darkens quickly, cover with aluminum foil and complete the baking. Always do the toothpick test before removing from the oven and if you want, sprinkle with powdered sugar and more cherries before serving. I didn’t add it because it’s delicious even without.
If you love CHERRIES check HERE, my blog is full of recipes with this fruit.
