Make-ahead Christmas recipe for 12 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has butter, dark chocolate, self-raising flour, golden caster sugar, cocoa, egg, milk, natural yogurt, cherries and double cream.
Black Forest loaf cake
Course: Make-ahead Christmas
Servings
12
servings
Prep time
25 mins
Ingredients
- Dark Chocolate: 75g dark chocolate, chopped
- Egg: 2 large eggs
- Milk: 60ml milk
- Natural Yogurt: 240g natural yogurt
- Butter: 175g butter, chopped
- Self Raising Flour: 300g self-raising flour
- Golden Caster Sugar: 375g golden caster sugar
- Cocoa: 30g cocoa
- Double Cream: 400ml double cream
- Cherries: 1 jar or tin of pitted cherries (about 600g), syrup reserved
Directions
- Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter and line a 1.5kg loaf tin.
- Melt the butter and chocolate together in themicrowaveuntil smooth. Sieve the flour into a bowl, then stir in the sugar and cocoa. Add the chocolate mixture, eggs, milk and 200g yogurt and blend until smooth.
- Spoon the mixture into the loaf tin and make eight dips in the surface. Top each dip with 1 tsp yogurt and a cherry. Put the loaf in the oven and bake for 1 hr, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 20 mins, then transfer to awire rackand leave to cool completely.
- Just before serving, use a balloon whisk or electricwhiskto beat the cream until stiff. Spoon the cream onto the cake in dollops, top with the remaining cherries and drizzle over some of the cherry syrup. Serve straightaway.Leftovers will keep for up to three days in the fridge.
