Cake “Drunken Cherry”

The “Drunken Cherry” cake is a classic adored by everyone. There are a lot of options for making this dessert, but there is no definitively correct recipe. Each housewife prepares this cake to her taste and preferences. I offer you my repeatedly proven recipe for chocolate cake with cherries.

Ingredients

For the biscuit:

• Flour – 2.5 cups (250 ml)
• Cocoa powder – 6 tablespoon.
• Sugar – 1-1.5 cups (250 ml)
• Vanilla sugar – 1 sachet
• Salt – 1/2 teaspoon
• Boiling water – 1 glass (200 ml) + 1 tablespoon. a spoonful of vinegar
• Odorless vegetable oil – 100 g
• Milk – 1 cup (250 ml)
• Eggs – 2 pcs.
• Soda – 1 teaspoon
• Baking powder – 1 sachet (15-18 g)

For the cream:

• Butter – 250 g
• Condensed milk – 1 can (380 g)

For filling:

• Cherries in their own juice (pitted) – 0.5 l can
  or fresh or frozen cherries – 300-400 g
• Cognac – 75-100 ml

For glaze:

• Sugar – 4 tablespoon.
• Starch – 5 g (1 teaspoon)
• Butter – 40-50 g
• Milk – 150-200 ml
• Cocoa – 4 tablespoon.

For decoration:

• Milk chocolate

Directions

1. First, you need to “intoxicate” the cherry. This should be done at least 5-12 hours before making the cake. If like me, you use ready-made canned cherries, then you need to drain the liquid into a separate bowl (with which we will saturate the biscuit) and pour the brandy over the cherry itself. If you take fresh or frozen (thawed) cherries, then you need to remove the seeds, pour them with brandy and additionally sprinkle 3-4 tablespoon. tablespoons of sugar, depending on how sour the cherry is.
2. We sift all dry ingredients into the dishes: flour, cocoa, sugar, vanilla sugar, a teaspoon of soda, a bag of baking powder, a pinch of salt. Do not be afraid that there is so much baking powder plus baking soda – you will not feel the smell of soda either when baking or in the finished biscuit. By the way, salt also helps to neutralize the smell of soda in the dough.
   Mix eggs, milk, and vegetable oil in a separate bowl. We just mix.
   We combine both mixtures. The wet mix should just moisten the dry ingredients.
3. You should get a very thick dough from which you can roll balls.
4. Take a glass (200 ml) of boiling water, pour it into the dough and mix quickly with a mixer until smooth. I advise adding a tablespoon of vinegar to the water, it helps to completely get rid of the soda smell.
5. At this point, the oven should already be heated to 200 degrees, and the mold should also be prepared (my mold dia is 23 cm). I covered the bottom with baking paper, did not grease the sides with anything.
   Pour the dough into a mold, scroll it a little so that the dough is evenly distributed.
6. A little about the baking itself. This dough loves to bake for the first 20-30 minutes at a high temperature of 200-210 degrees, and then go up to a small 150-160 degrees for 30 minutes too. Be guided by your oven, but remember that the first half of baking is a high temperature, the second half is below average. You can cover the mold with oiled foil – according to my observations, this way the dough rises higher and smoother, but there will be a bump in any case because there is baking powder in the dough.
7. Let the biscuit cool well. To lie down, of course, is desirable for him, but not critical.

   

8. Preparing the cream. Everything is very simple: gradually add condensed milk to the softened butter and mix with a mixer.
   (When half of the condensed milk is added, take out 2-3 tablespoons of the cream for decorating the cake.)
9. Cut off the tubercle from the biscuit, then cut off the “lid” with a thickness of about 1 cm. From the remaining biscuit, select the pulp, leaving the walls and bottom 1 cm thick. You should get an impromptu bowl. Saturate the biscuit “bowl” with the cherry syrup drained earlier.

   

10. We also saturate the “lid”.
    (If you used frozen or fresh cherries, then before adding the cherries to the cream, the liquid formed in it must be drained. Add 100-150 ml of water, a couple of tablespoons of sugar to this cherry juice, boil, cool and you can soak a biscuit bowl with this syrup and cap “.)
11. Cut the pulp and the cut tubercle into small pieces (do not forget to set aside 150 g of pulp for sprinkling the sides and decorating the cake).
    Combine pulp, cream, and cherries with brandy. Mix everything well so that all the pieces and crumbs of the biscuit are covered with cream.
12. We return it back to the biscuit “bowl”, align and cover with a “lid”. We put the cake in the refrigerator for an hour so that the cream and biscuit cool down a little.
13. Combine sugar, cocoa, starch, butter, and milk in a saucepan.
14. We put on a small fire, stirring constantly, bring to a boil. From the beginning, the mass will be lumpy, but then it will become homogeneous and glossy. (I want to say that both cocoa and starch, and spoons are also different, so adjust the thickness of the glaze with milk. Make sure that the glaze is not very thin, but not too thick. There should be the consistency of condensed milk.)
15. From the previously set aside pulp of the biscuit, use a blender to make crumbs or simply grind the biscuit with our hands.
16. Pour hot icing on the cooled cake. Let the icing on the cake cool a little and grab – and you can decorate. Sprinkle the sides of the cake with biscuit crumbs. Decorate the top to your liking. I decorated with the remaining cream using a pastry bag and put the cherries on top.
17. I melted milk chocolate (30 g) in the microwave right in a bag, squeezed it out on parchment paper in the form of decorative figures.
18. She separated the cooled figures with a knife and decorated the cake with them. We give the cake “Drunken Cherry” 1-1.5 hours to brew and you can eat.

    

Cook and enjoy!

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