Chocolate cake with cherries and sour cream

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 day

1. STEP 1

   

   How to bake a delicious chocolate cake with cherries and sour cream? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Break the eggs into a mixer bowl and add sugar. Beat everything together for a few minutes until fluffy. While beating, the eggs will become much lighter. You will learn the subtleties of preparing the sponge cake by reading the article at the end of the recipe.

2. STEP 2

   

   Then gradually, in several stages, mix flour with soda and cocoa into the egg mass. Here you no longer need a mixer, since it is best to do this manually using a whisk so that the mass remains fluffy and airy. You may need a little less or more flour, check the consistency of the dough. Read about the properties of flour and the peculiarities of using soda in baking in separate articles at the end of the recipe.

3. STEP 3

   

   Pour the finished dough into a baking dish (20-22 cm) and place in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40-50 minutes. Remove the finished biscuit from the mold and cool. This biscuit turns out to be very tender, so it is best to put the completely cooled biscuit in a bag and put it in the refrigerator for about overnight. When you prepare the sponge cake, take it out and cut it into 4 layers. 3 will be used for the cake, and leave the fourth for sprinkling.

4. STEP 4

   

   For the cream, beat the sour cream with powdered sugar until it becomes a fluffy thick cream. Use sour cream at least 25%. At 25% fat, you can add a little thickener. And at 30-35% fat content, the sour cream itself whips perfectly. You will learn the subtleties of preparing sour cream cream by reading the article below the steps.

5. STEP 5

   

   If you use frozen cherries for the filling, you must first defrost them. There is no need to drain the juice. Soak the biscuits with this juice. Then layer the cake with cream and lay out the cherries.

6. STEP 6

   

   Assemble the cake. Coat the top and sides with the same cream.

7. STEP 7

   

   Grind the remaining one sponge cake using a blender and sprinkle on the sides of the cake. You can also sprinkle the top of the cake.

8. STEP 8

   

   You can also decorate with a little cream, cherries and grated chocolate. Although the decoration of the cake will depend on the intended special event. Place the finished cake in the refrigerator for several hours so that it soaks in the cream and hardens. Enjoy your tea!

Comments on the recipe

Feruzolda

08.08.2023

4.5

Instead, see the recipe for chocolate cake with cherries, Heavenly Delight.

Moderator Ksenia

08.08.2023

4.6

I made a chocolate cake with cherries and sour cream for my husband’s birthday. For the sponge cake I used category C1 eggs. The amount of flour used was the same as indicated in the recipe. To bake the sponge cake, I used a mold with a diameter of 19 cm. The sponge cake was baked in my oven at 180 degrees for 50 minutes. During this time, it rose well and turned out quite dense, but soft. I put the finished, cooled sponge cake in the refrigerator overnight, wrapping it in cling film. For the cream, I only had 20 percent sour cream. There was no thickener, so I added about a tablespoon of cornstarch when whipping the sour cream. I sent the finished cream to the refrigerator. To decorate the cake, in addition to the crushed sponge cake, I used milk chocolate grated on a fine grater. I placed the finished cake in the refrigerator for several hours. The cake turned out well soaked in cream. Everything about this cake is perfect: sponge cake layers, delicate sour cream and cherries with a pleasant sourness. Yulia, thank you very much for the recipe!

Milana

08.08.2023

4.9

Yulia 1, what a cute cake you made! Is it possible to prepare such cherries, with tails, for the winter?

Jolka

08.08.2023

4.8

very tasty)))I made it for my father-in-law for his birthday. I soaked the cakes in regular milk. It’s also very tasty and tender...I recommend it))) thanks for the recipe)