Sheet Pan Chocolate Cake With Cherries and Mascarpone Whipped Cream

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By Sanaë Lemoine and Olga Massov

This cocoa cake, made successful a expanse pan, delivers perfectly moist, affluent layers, separated by hardly sweetened whipped mascarpone and dense cream, and cherry preserves. With generous shavings of cocoa connected top, this elemental dessert is bound to beryllium a showstopper.

Adapted from “Hot Sheet: Sweet and Savory Sheet Pan Recipes for Every Day and Celebrations” by Olga Massov and Sanaë Lemoine (Harvest, 2024).

Ingredients

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Servings: 10-12

For the cake

13 tablespoons (1 instrumentality positive 5 tablespoons/185 grams) unsalted butter, chopped into 1-inch pieces, positive much for the pan
1 1/2 cups (300 grams) granulated sugar
3 tablespoons water
3 ounces (85 grams) acheronian cocoa (68 to 70 percent cacao), astir chopped
3/4 cupful (70 grams) Dutch-process cocoa powder
1 3/4 cups (220 grams) all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 spoon baking soda
1 spoon good salt
3/4 cupful (180 milliliters) full milk
2 ample eggs
1 ample ovum yolk

For the mascarpone whip

8 ounces (227 grams) mascarpone
1 cupful (240 milliliters) dense cream
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/8 spoon good salt

For assembly

2/3 cupful (213 grams) cherry preserves oregon jam (preferably, sour cherry)
1 ounce (28 grams) acheronian cocoa (68 to 70 percent cacao)
10 to 12 caller oregon alcohol-soaked cherries (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving, based connected 12

Calories
632
Fat
42 g
Saturated Fat
28 g
Carbohydrates
64 g
Sodium
431 mg
Cholesterol
155 mg
Protein
7 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
41 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Hot Sheet: Sweet and Savory Sheet Pan Recipes for Every Day and Celebrations” by Olga Massov and Sanaë Lemoine (Harvest, 2024).

Tested by Debi Suchman.

Published March 4, 2024

Updated March 17, 2026