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  • Serves 12
  • 40 minutes
  • Difficulty Easy
  • 9 Ingredients

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Black forest – almost mud cake style!


Ingredients (serves 12)

  • 2 (425g) tins pitted cherries in syrup
  • 100g dark chocolate
  • 165g butter
  • 200g brown sugar
  • 60ml cherry brandy
  • 1 1/4 cups plain flour
  • 2 Tbsp self-raising flour
  • 4 Tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1 egg

Method

  1. Drain both tins of cherries and keep 1/2 cup of syrup.
  2. Place cherries and syrup in a blender to puree.
  3. Pour puree into a pot with dark chocolate, butter, brown sugar and cherry brandy.
  4. Melt over medium heat, stirring regularly.
  5. Take off heat and set aside for 10 minutes.
  6. Sift all dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
  7. Mix wet and dry ingredients together.
  8. Once combined, crack in the egg and mix well.
  9. Spoon even amounts into a lined or greased muffin tray.
  10. Bake for approximately 20 minutes at 180 degrees C.

  • Yum, I love black forest, delish!!

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  • You had me at Black Forest. YUM!

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  • Love Black forest cake and will be trying this one out.

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  • Ooooh, I can’t wait to make and try these little beauties.

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  • Black Forest cake is my all time favourite. Thanks for sharing

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  • Fantastic! Thank you very much for sharing! Looking forward to trying it! :D

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  • Wow, what an excellent invention! Definitely going to try these!

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  • You had me at “Black Forrest”

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  • Black Forest is a favourite but l do need the cream as well! Clever idea!

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  • Um, yes please! Gosh, I’m really crushing on this recipe!

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  • Nomnomnom and cherry brandy too!!! Perfect

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  • I love Black Forest cake and these are great mini versions. Thanks for sharing.

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  • a funked up muffin – love it!

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  • A lovely recipe; thanks!.

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  • Thought these were chocolate biscuits, need to wear my glasses. Even better the choc bics tho ;)

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  • black forest cake is one of my all time favourite deserts – I love the sound of these deconstructed black forest muffins. I can see them being served as desert with some whipped cream! – thank you for sharing your recipe

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  • it does look like a mud cake

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  • I’m lost – how are they deconstructed??

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  • My Mum will love them as she loves cherries and black forest cake too.

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  • Looks delicious!

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