Cocoa and cherry cake

Name: Cocoa and cherry cake
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 150 g Ladyfingers; 7-8 TABLESPOONS brown rum; 1 kg (à 720 ml) sweet or sour cherries; alternatively 2 glasses of cherries; 6 Eggs (Gr. M); 175 g soft butter/margarine; 175 g Sugar; 30 g Cocoa; 100 g ground almonds (with skin); 1 knife tip Cinnamon; 7-10 Tbsp Salt; 3 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar; baking paper

AUTHOR
Arlie Wyatt

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
60 mins

TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12

150 g Ladyfingers
7-8 TABLESPOONS brown rum
1 kg (à 720 ml) sweet or sour cherries; alternatively 2 glasses of cherries
6 Eggs (Gr. M)
175 g soft butter/margarine
175 g Sugar
30 g Cocoa
100 g ground almonds (with skin)
1 knife tip Cinnamon
7-10 Tbsp Salt
3 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar
baking paper

Directions

1
Break or crumble the lady fingers into small pieces. Put them in a bowl and sprinkle with rum. Cover the sponge fingers and let them steep for at least 2 hours. Stir 1-2 times if necessary. Wash cherries, remove stalks and pits (drain cherries well from the jar; see
2
Line a springform pan (26 cm Ø) at the bottom with baking paper. Separate the eggs. Mix 175 g fat and sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer for 6-8 minutes until creamy. Stir in the egg yolks one after the other for about 1⁄2 minutes each.
3
Mix cocoa, almonds and cinnamon, stir in briefly. Also stir in the lady fingers briefly. Beat egg white and 1 pinch of salt until stiff and carefully fold in portions.
4
Brush approx. 1⁄3 of the dough into the mould so that the bottom is covered about the width of a finger.
5
Add the cherries to the rest of the dough and fold in carefully. Fill the cherry dough into the tin and smooth it down. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: level 2) for about 1 hour.
6
Take the cake out of the oven. Use a knife to loosen from the edge of the springform pan, remove the edge of the pan. Place the cake on a cake rack, dust with 2 tbsp. icing sugar and allow to cool. Shortly before serving, dust again with 1 tablespoon icing sugar.
7
Whipped cream is delicious with it.