Sour Cherry Chocolate Loaf Cake

A moist loaf-style cake with cocoa, dark chocolate and fruity sour cherries. It turns out well without any prior experience and tastes best when freshly baked.

By yumbelo · 8 servings · 75 minutes

Ingredients

• 200 g Butter, softened
• 200 g Sugar
• 1 pack Vanilla sugar
• 4 pc Eggs
• 250 g Wheat flour
• 2 tsp Baking powder
• 30 g Cocoa powder
• 100 ml Milk
• 200 g Sour cherries from a jar, drained
• 100 g Dark chocolate, roughly chopped
• 1 pinch Salt
• 2 tbsp Powdered sugar for dusting

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 175 °C top and bottom heat and grease a loaf pan (approx. 25 cm) with some butter and dust it with flour.
2. Beat the butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and salt in a bowl with a hand mixer for about 5 minutes until light and fluffy.
3. Stir in the eggs one at a time until the mixture is smooth.
4. Mix the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder and stir them into the batter in two portions, alternating with the milk, until you have an even batter.
5. Gently fold the chopped dark chocolate and the drained sour cherries into the batter.
6. Spoon the batter into the pan, smooth the top and bake in the preheated oven for about 55 to 65 minutes. Test with a wooden skewer to check whether the inside is fully baked.
7. Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn it out onto a wire rack and let it cool completely.
8. Dust with powdered sugar before serving.