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Double Chocolate Sheet Cake with Cherries

Prep

15 min

Bake

20 mins

Serves

10+

Difficulty

Medium

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This rich chocolate sheet cake, with an indulgent chocolate mascarpone frosting, is for all chocolate lovers out there! Topped with luscious cherries, it makes an absolutely stunning centrepiece that you'll want to make on repeat.

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Step 1

Preheat the oven to 180C.⠀

Step 2

Mix the sugar, eggs and softened butter until pale and fluffy, this will take 3-4min.⠀

Step 3

Sift the flour and cocoa powder into the same bowl. Add the milk, salt and baking powder and mix until combined. ⠀

Step 4

Get your baking tin ready (35x25cm) line it with parchment paper. Pour the cake mixture in and bake for approximately 20-22min at 180C. ⠀

Step 5

When the cake is baked, transfer the warm cake with the parchment paper to a cooling rack. Let it cool completely at room temperature before adding the mascarpone frosting in order to prevent it from melting.

Step 6

Once the cake is fully cooled, you can start making the frosting. Add the cold mascarpone in a large bowl and sift in the icing sugar and cocoa powder. Mix for 2-3 minutes.

Step 7

Pour in the cold double cream, and mix until stiff peaks form, but making sure not to overmix.

Step 8

Spread over the room temperature cake and serve with pitted cherries on top. This cake works best served at room temperature. If you refrigerate it, take it out 10-15 minutes before serving.

Ingredients – 8 items

Serving

1

For the cake

Eggs

Eggs

Room temperature

2
Flour

All purpose flour

250 g
Milk

Milk

Room temperature

300 ml
Fairtrade Light Brown Soft

Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Pure Cane Soft Light Brown Sugar

150 g
Butter

Butter

Room temperature

100 g
Cocoa-powder

Cocoa powder

45 g
Baking-powder

Baking powder

2 tsp
Salt-table

Pinch of salt

1

For the chocolate mascarpone frosting

Mascarpone

250 g
Cream

Double cream

250 g
Cocoa-powder

Cocoa powder

20 g
Fairtrade Cane Icing Sugar

Fairtrade Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar

50 g

To serve

Cherries

Cherries

Sweet, halved and pitted

200 g

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