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Chocolate Cherry Brownie Cake with ice cream

Chocolate Cherry Brownie Cake

Janice Pattie
Chocolate Cherry Brownie Cake is a rich fudgy chocolate cake topped with a sweet cherry compote and decorated with fresh cherries.
5 from 11 votes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Baking, Dessert
Cuisine British
Servings 8
Calories 510 kcal

Equipment

  • 20 cm cake tin
  • saucepan
  • small bowl
  • Large bowl
  • weighing scales
  • Measuring spoons
  • electric mixer or whisk

Ingredients
 

For the Chocolate Brownie Cake

  • 200 grams dark chocolate broken
  • 125 grams butter unsalted, cubed
  • 50 grams ground almonds
  • 100 grams self raising flour
  • 4 Free Range Eggs Large
  • 125 grams Caster Sugar

For the cherry compote

  • 250 grams cherries
  • 100 grams sugar
  • 60 millilitres water
  • 1/2 lemon juice only

For the decoration

  • 100 grams fresh cherries halved and stones removed

Instructions
 

For the cake

  • Preheat oven to 180C
  • Place chocolate and butter in a bowl over a pan of simmering water.
  • Melt, then cool and stir in ground almonds and flour.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs and sugar for 5 minutes, until they are pale and mouse-like.
  • Fold a little of the egg mixture into the chocolate mixture to loosen the thick batter, then add the rest of the beaten egg and sugar and gently fold in with a metal spoon.
  • Line a 20cm cake tin with baking paper and spoon in the cake batter.
  • Bake for 20-25 minutes, until set but slightly soft in the centre.
  • Remove from the oven, allow to cook in the tin then transfer to a wire rack.

For the cherry compote

  • Remove the stones from the cherries and cut them in half
  • Put the cherries in a saucepan with water and simmer for about 10 minutes
  • Add the sugar and lemon juice and heat gently until all the sugar is dissolved
  • Bring the cherry compote to the boil and boil for about 5 minutes or until the compote becomes syrupy
  • Leave to cool

To Assemble

  • Place the cooled cake on a serving plate and spoon the cherries from the cherry compote on to the top of the chocolate brownie cake.
  • Decorate with fresh cherry halves. brush them with some of the cherry syrup and top with shavings of dark chocolate.

To Serve

  • Serve with cream or ice cream and drizzle over the remaining cherry syrup

Notes

You can serve the Chocolate Brownie Cake without the cherry compote and cherries, it's totally delicious but even better with the cherries! 

Nutrition

Calories: 510kcalCarbohydrates: 57gProtein: 8gFat: 29gSaturated Fat: 15gCholesterol: 116mgSodium: 149mgPotassium: 319mgFiber: 5gSugar: 40gVitamin A: 547IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 55mgIron: 4mg