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Warm and juicy cherries from farmers market. Unsweetened Chocovic baking chocolate from Trader Joe’s. Hazelnuts from last winter. Combined with all-purpose flour and baked together. This cherry chocolate cake has strong bitter taste. Almost like medicine, and I love that kind of choco-potency. A rare extravagance that puts in a mood for an equally decadent holiday weekend.<\/p>\n
A chocolate cake shouldn’t be cloyingly sweet. That is the manthram I applied when I put together the following ingredients. It’s an easy recipe and the results are very bakery like. <\/p>\n
Chocolate Cherry Cake:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n8 oz unsweetened baking chocolate (Chocovic<\/a>) Chocolate: I broke the chocolate bar to small pieces and placed them in a bowl in a microwave oven. Heated the chocolate until it melted to smooth lava like. It took about two minutes of microwave heat and two stirrings for lump-free consistency. (The chocolate can also be melted by double boiler method<\/a> on stovetop setting.)<\/p>\n Cherries and Hazelnuts: While chocolate is cooling, I removed the pits from cherries using fingers. Cherries were very ripe, so it was quick with fingers, and I didn’t have to use knife or special gizmos like cherry pitter.<\/p>\n Baking Time: Kept the oven at 350 F to preheat. Lined the loaf pan with parchment paper. While oven was getting hot, flour got sifted into a vessel. To the flour, I added sugar, baking soda and baking powder. After stirring with a spoon, I added ghee, melted chocolate, and cardamom powder and combined them well together with a sturdy spoon. Pitted cherries and hazel nuts went in next. Mixing one more time, and then poured the whole thing into baking pan<\/a>. The batter was fairly dense (see the images below), but manageable.<\/p>\n Placed the pan in preheated oven and baked the cake at 350 F for about 45 minutes. When a fork inserted in the middle of the cake came out clean, I turned off the oven and removed the pan to cool the cake. After the photography session, I finally took a break and had a small piece. Loved the bittersweet experience. <\/p>\n Warm and juicy cherries from farmers market. Unsweetened Chocovic baking chocolate from Trader Joe’s. Hazelnuts from last winter. Combined with all-purpose flour and baked together. This cherry chocolate cake has strong bitter taste. Almost like medicine, and I love that kind of choco-potency. A rare extravagance that puts in a mood for an equally decadent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherries","category-chocolate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2 cups – fresh, sweet cherries
\n1 cup – all purpose flour
\n½ cup – sugar
\n¼ teaspoon each – baking soda & baking powder
\n¼ to ½ cup – melted ghee
\n¼ teaspoon – finely crushed cardamom
\n¼ cup – hazelnuts, finely chopped
\n9-inch loaf pan<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"\/mahanandi\/images\/cherries\/cherrychocolatecoyrightedimage2.jpg\")
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\nMelted Chocolate and Pitted Cherries…. Dense Choco-Cherry Cake Batter, Ready for Baking<\/small><\/font><\/center>
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\nCooling off – Cake and Kittaya…… Reversed and Ready to Slice – Baked Cake Loaf<\/small><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n![\"Chocolate](\"\/mahanandi\/images\/cherries\/cherrychocolatecoyrightedimage6.jpg\")
\nChocolate-Cherry Cake with Hazelnuts ~ for Chocolate Craving<\/small><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"