Royal Cherry Cakes
(recipe adapted from Sale & Pepe magazine, Serbian issue for June 2007)
100 g dark chocolate
40 g butter
60 g flour
80 g sugar
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1 sachet (2 tsp) vanillin sugar
a pinch of salt
In a double boiler melt butter and chocolate. In a separate bowl, beat egg with sugar and vanillin sugar. Sift flour and baking powder over, add salt and whisk. Whisk in melted butter and chocolate also.
Brush 4 small cake molds (6 cm in diameter, or simply use cupcake molds) with some melted butter then dust with flour. Pour batter into the molds up to the two thirds of their height. Bake in a preheated oven on 200°C (390°F) for 20 minutes.
Sour Cherry Sauce
100 g pitted sour cherries
100 g sugar
75 ml white wine
1/2 tsp corn starch
Dissolve corn starch in wine. Add cherries and sugar and bring to boil. After it boils, reduce the heat so that it simmers lightly and cook until the sauce thickens. Strain the sauce. (Don’t throw away the strained cherries, eat them, they are delicious cooked in wine!)
Serve cakes decorated with fresh whole sour cherries and chilled sauce poured over.
Note: This is my entry to the ‘Simple and in Season’ – June event.
11 comments
Peter says:
Jun 21, 2011
These are very pretty…hope to try these while cherries are in season.
Sharmilee says:
Jun 21, 2011
Yummm and pretty click
jaisy says:
Jun 21, 2011
wow nicely baked perfect n yummy
Tina@flourtrader says:
Jun 22, 2011
Royalty has all the perks-especially these delicious little cakes. I will need to be eat like royalty soon and make these cakes-awesome picks. thanks for sharing.
Carolyn says:
Jun 22, 2011
These look insanely good. Wow, thanks for sharing.
briarrose says:
Jun 22, 2011
Beautiful and delicious. Love the cherry sauce.
Tamara says:
Jun 23, 2011
fantastične su
pity says:
Jun 24, 2011
lovely cakes, cheers!
wizzythestick says:
Jun 24, 2011
These are just so dainty and cute. I dare say I’d have to have more than one – it looks so good.
Rochelle says:
Jun 27, 2011
Beautiful cakes! We were just at a cherry festival a couple weeks ago, and they should have had some of these there. I think I need to get to the store to get some more and give this recipe a try :D
Ren Behan - Fabulicious Food! says:
Jul 13, 2011
Thank you so much for enetring these bautiful cakes into Simple and in Season! A round-up will follow today. Ren