This soft sponge cake with cherry filling is an appetizing and aromatic delicacy that is perfect both as an everyday dessert and as a sweet dish for a festive table.
There are many ways to make a cherry biscuit. The most interesting of them are a sponge cake with a filling, as well as a chocolate-cherry dessert without baking.
How to Make Cherry Filled Sponge Pie
The ingredients for the preparation of this delicacy are the following:
For the bottom layer:
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon butter at room temperature
- 1/2 glass of sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 large egg, divided into white and yolk
- some milk
For filling:
2 small cans of pitted canned cherries or 2 cups fresh
For the top layer:
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 egg yolk
Preparation
Grease a small baking sheet with oil.
If using canned cherries, drain the jars. If fresh, choose bones from it.
Combine flour, butter, sugar and baking powder by hand. Whisk the egg white until frothy in a large measuring cup. Add milk gradually, adding it until you have a whole glass of protein-milk mixture. Pour this mixture into the flour with the other ingredients and stir until smooth.
Lubricate your hands with oil. Take the dough and spread it evenly on the baking sheet, gently pressing in the center. Spread the cherries evenly over it.
Combine the ingredients for the top layer into a homogeneous dough. Place evenly on top of the cherries.
Bake at 180 ° C until tender. This will usually take 25 to 30 minutes until the dough is pleasantly golden brown. Remember that if the dough is too pale, the bottom layer of the sponge cake will not be baked. The bottom of the cake should be slightly damp, this is normal.
You can serve the cherry sponge cake with whipped cream or sprinkled with cinnamon. If you wish, you can use more than just cherries by mixing them with other fruits and berries.
How to make cherry chocolate sponge cake dessert without baking
To do this, you need the following ingredients:
- 300 grams of dark or milk chocolate, chopped
- 10 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 cup whipped cream
- 2 tablespoons of sugar syrup or soft light molasses
- 200 grams of crushed biscuit cookies
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/3 cup raisins
- 1/3 cup pitted cherries
Preparation
Cover a small, high-edged metal baking sheet with plastic wrap from the inside.
Stir the chocolate and butter in a large heavy-bottomed saucepan over low heat until melted and combined. Add cream and syrup, mix well and remove from heat. Then gradually add the rest of the ingredients and stir until smooth.
Transfer the mixture to the prepared mold and flatten the top. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until dough hardens. This will take at least 3 hours, but it is advisable to leave the pie overnight.
Then take the cherry biscuit out of the refrigerator, peel off the plastic wrap. Place the dish on a baking sheet and turn the pie over onto the dish. Remove the plastic wrap. Cut the dessert into pieces and serve.
