CHOCOLATE CHERRY CAKE ( 2 WAYS )

With this recipe you get to decide whether you want a chocolate cherry cake or a chocolate cherry dessert cake. Preheat your oven to 180 deg C. Grease and line a 20cm/ 8" round cake pan. Here are the ingredients and the method , your decision. Ingredients......125gm of soft butter/ marg, 250gm of castor sugar, 2 eggs lightly beaten, 185gm of self raising flour, 1/4 cup of dutch cocoa, 1/2 cup of milk, 100gm of 70% cocoa chocolate finely chopped, 3/4 cup of morello cherries, retaining the juice if you are making a dessert cake. Ingredients for the cherry syrup for the dessert cake.......3/4 cup of morello cherry syrup, 75 gm of castor sugar and 1/3 rd cup of water. Beat butter/ marg and sugar together until light and fluffy. In a separate bowl mix together the cocoa and flour. Add the milk and beaten eggs together and beat this mixture into the mixed butter and sugar. Now beat in the flour mix in 2 batches. Finally stir in the cherries and chocolates. Spoon the mixture into the preapared pan. Cook in the preheated oven for 60 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Leave in the pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto a serving plate. So that is your cake done. TO complete your dessert cake, prepare a cherry syrup. Combine the morello cherry syrup,the sugar and water in a small saucepan and stir over a low heat until the sugar dissolves. Pour the hot cherry syrup over the cake and leave stand for 4 and 1/2 hours. Serve with thickened whipped cream.