Decadent Chocolate Cherry Bundt Cake - Real Recipes from Mums

Rich, dark and totally delicious, you will impress anyone with this Chocolate Cherry Bundt Cake! So moist and dense, its a really decadent treat!

Ingredients (makes 1 Cake)

15 Morello cherries (plus extra to decorate)
1 Cup Plain flour, plus more for coating the cherries
1 Cup Sugar
1/4 cup Buttermilk
2 TBS Cherry juice, reserved from the jar
1/2 tsp Bi carb soda
1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
1 large Eggs
8 TBS Salted butter
2 heaped TBS Good quality cocoa powder
CHOCOLATE GANACHE
1 cup Heavy cream
1 tsp Vanilla extract
250g Dark chocolate chips

Method

Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees and grease a non stick bundt pan with spray oil
Toss the 15 cherries in a bit of flour to evenly coat and then set aside
In a large bowl, stir together the flour, sugar and set aside. In another bowl, mix the buttermilk, cherry syrup, baking soda, vanilla and egg with a fork and set aside.
Bring 1 cup water to a boil in a small pan. Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat; add the cocoa and whisk to combine. Add the boiling water to the cocoa mixture and allow to bubble for a moment. Turn off the heat.
Pour the cocoa mixture into the flour mixture. Stir together for a moment to cool the chocolate then pour in the egg mixture. Mix in the flour-coated cherries.
Pour mix into a bundt pan and bake until an inserted cake tester comes out clean – approximately 20 to 25 minutes. Let the cake cool in the pan briefly before removing onto a cooling rack placed over a baking sheet.
For the chocolate ganache: Heat the cream in a small saucepan until very hot, then add the vanilla. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate in a heatproof bowl; stir completely to melt the chocolate
Pour the ganache over the cake (place wire rack over a sink or another tray to collect all the ganache as the excess runs off the cake), and decorate with some more cherries

Notes

This Chocolate Cherry Bundt Cake will keep in the fridge for up to 5 days. It becomes more dense and mud cake like the longer it sits in the fridge!

43 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 06 Apr 2023
    10:14 am
Oh my lord….this looks heavenly

- - caramello said
  - 29 Sep 2021
    10:04 am
looks like a very delicious dessert.

- - smart_ass said
  - 31 May 2021
    5:35 pm
love how glossy this looks

- - mom327228 said
  - 24 Nov 2019
    1:38 pm
Beautiful its like a donut cake

- - cherz said
  - 28 Sep 2019
    4:45 pm
Not a fan of morello cherries but I am sure I can get around the problem because the cake looks amazing.

- - youngoldlady said
  - 30 Aug 2019
    5:41 pm
Looks sticky, gooey and so eatable.

- - mom371543 said
  - 22 Aug 2019
    5:53 am
This looks wonderful will try this for my next dinner gathering I love bundt cause its easy to cut

- - nadine_hill said
  - 30 Jul 2019
    11:28 am
Wow! That looks amazing, and if it tastes as good as good as it looks, I’ll be in heaven!

- - mom62624 said
  - 14 Jul 2019
    7:14 am
An amazing treat indeed, looks so delicious.

- - rachelvk said
  - 05 Jul 2019
    9:46 pm
Chocolate and cherries – so delicious!
- rachelvk replied
  
  06 Jul 2019 , 10:10 pm
  And looks very rich and decadent too.
- - mom129591 said
  - 01 Jul 2019
    11:23 am
Wow! That looks amazing. The recipe isn’t to bad either. I will have to try.

- - MrsA said
  - 31 May 2019
    11:44 pm
I don’t have a bundt tin but I remember seeing a hack to make one without it.

- - mom350461 said
  - 25 May 2019
    9:16 pm
Sounds like a crowd pleaser. Got to try this one.

- - becstalou said
  - 23 May 2019
    12:04 pm
I don’t think I’ve ever had this sort of cake before should be a good one to try.

- - caramello said
  - 20 May 2019
    9:20 pm
I would love to make this one, it sounds delicious. thanks for sharing

- - mom101628 said
  - 18 May 2019
    10:34 pm
If only my significant other half was able to have chocolate in his diet – oh well the recipe sounds lovely any way. Thanks for sharing.

- - teegsmrstee said
  - 16 May 2019
    8:10 pm
This looks delightful with cherries on top!

- - serotonin said
  - 15 May 2019
    3:57 pm
I wonder if I could make this without the cherries. Only cherries I like are fresh ones, not the glazed ones which taste very different I reckon. Looks amazing though!
- Kel from MoM CookClub replied
  
  19 May 2019 , 6:50 pm
  I am the same as you I hate galce cherries, but these arent those ones. These are the fresh ones in a jar in the juice.
- - taynik46 said
  - 11 May 2019
    7:58 am
yummo this looks amazing! I love the combination of chocolates and cherries – very tasty!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 09 May 2019
    8:44 pm
This photo makes me want to eat the whole thing!