Brandied Cherry Chocolate Cake

5.0 (1)

This isn't a accepted fruitcake, but the brandied cherries enactment it successful the aforesaid family. One admirer remarked that this barroom tastes similar the chocolate-covered cherries of his youth, but with a sublime big kick.

The look calls for brandied cherries, which aren't the aforesaid arsenic maraschino cherries. They tin beryllium recovered astatine gourmet stores and online; we recovered respective brands connected Amazon.com. They're besides precise casual (and overmuch cheaper) to make; recipes abound connected the Internet.

When you process the nuts and chocolate, instrumentality attraction that you don't crook them into cocoa almond butter. Chilling some ingredients -- and adjacent the flour, if you privation to beryllium truly cautious -- makes that improbable to happen.

This barroom is fantabulous connected its own, but it wouldn't endure if you chose to travel it with whipped cream.

The barroom tin beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia for up to 5 days. Freezing is not recommended.

Adapted from Peter Brett, pastry cook astatine Blue Duck Tavern successful Washington's West End.

Ingredients

Adapted from Peter Brett, pastry cook astatine Blue Duck Tavern successful Washington's West End.

Tested by Jane Touzalin.