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🍰 Amarena Cherry Cake with Chocolate Glaze

820 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• butter (for the pan)
• flour (for the pan)
• 200 g Amarena cherries (jar)
• flour (for dusting)
• 200 g butter
• 1 tbsp beet syrup
• 150 g sugar
• 4 eggs
• 100 g amarettini
• 300 g flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 120 ml milk
• 125 ml whipping cream
• 1 tsp coffee (instant)
• 250 g dark chocolate

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
2. 2. Grease a loaf pan with butter.
3. 3. Dust the greased pan with flour.
4. 4. Drain the Amarena cherries over a sieve.
5. 5. Dust the drained cherries with flour.
6. 6. Beat the butter with the syrup and sugar until creamy.
7. 7. Beat the eggs into the butter mixture one by one.
8. 8. Place the amaretti cookies in a freezer bag.
9. 9. Crush the amaretti cookies finely with a rolling pin.
10. 10. Mix the crushed amaretti with the flour and baking powder.
11. 11. Stir the dry mixture and the milk alternately into the butter mixture.
12. 12. Mix everything into a smooth batter.
13. 13. Fold the cherries into the batter at the end.
14. 14. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
15. 15. Spread the batter evenly in the pan.
16. 16. Bake the cake in the preheated oven for 45 to 60 minutes.
17. 17. Perform the skewer test to check the baking time.
18. 18. Heat the cream with the coffee in a saucepan.
19. 19. Chop the chocolate coarsely.
20. 20. Add the chopped chocolate to the hot cream.
21. 21. Let the chocolate melt in the cream.
22. 22. Remove the saucepan from the heat.
23. 23. Let the chocolate mixture cool down.
24. 24. Wait until the mixture becomes thick.
25. 25. Take the cake out of the oven.
26. 26. Let the cake cool down.
27. 27. Turn the cake out of the pan.
28. 28. Let the cake cool completely.
29. 29. Spread the chocolate cream over the cake.
30. 30. Let the chocolate cream dry.
31. 31. Slice the cake.
32. 32. Serve the cake slices.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 820
• Protein: 11 g · Fett/Fat: 48 g · Carbs: 82 g