Chocolate cherry brownie cake

  • Preparation time: 20 minutes + chilling
  • Cooking time: 25 minutes
  • Total time: 45 minutes + chilling
  • Serves:8 – 10

    Ingredients

    350g plain chocolate, broken into pieces
    225g Lurpak Danish Slightly Salted Butter, diced
    3 medium Waitrose British Blacktail Free Range Eggs
    225g Billington’s Dark Brown Soft Sugar
    75g self-raising flour
    75g Dr. Oetker Dark Chocolate Chips (selected branches)

    FOR THE FILLING
    50g Lurpak Slightly Salted Butter
    100g Billington’s Golden
    Icing Sugar
    1 tsp Nielsen-Massey
    Vanilla Bean Paste
    200g Bonne Maman Cherry Compote
    1 tsp cocoa
     

    Method

    1. Preheat the oven to 190°C, gas mark 5. Grease and base line 2 x 22cm sandwich tins.

    2. Melt the chocolate and butter in a large bowl over a pan of simmering water.

    3. Meanwhile, whisk the eggs and sugar until pale and fluffy. Stir in the chocolate mixture and then fold in the flour and chocolate chips. Divide between the 2 tins and bake for 25 minutes until just cooked. Allow to cool, then chill.

    4. To make the filling, whisk the butter, sugar and vanilla extract together until pale and fluffy. Drain the cherry compote.

    5. Spread the butter icing over 1 half of the brownie cake, spoon over the drained cherries and top with the remaining brownie cake. Dust with cocoa and serve.

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