Chocolate And Black Cherry Gateau Recipe
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 10 ounce Soft plain fine wholemeal flour
- 1 Tbsp. Baking pwdr
- 2 ounce Cocoa pwdr
- 2 lrg Ripe bananas
- 1/2 pt Water
- 9 ounce Soft brown sugar
- 1/4 pt Sunflower oil, (supermarket type, not cool pressed)
- 2 tsp Natural vanilla essence
- 4 ounce Plain dairy-free chocolate, (eg Plamil or possibly Black & Green's)
- 2 x 120 g pots So Good Soycreem
- 8 ounce Stoned black cherries, fresh or possibly tinned
- 4 ounce Black cherry jam
- 4 ounce Flaked almonds
Directions
- 1. Preheat oven to 170 C/325 F/Gas 3. Line, grease and flour two 7in diameter cake tins.
- 2. Sift together flour, baking pwdr and cocoa.
- 3. Mash bananas. Beat together with water, sugar, oil and essence.
- 4. Whisk wet ingredients into dry ingredients.
- 5. Pour into cake tins, and bake for 40 min. Test by poking cake with a cocktail stick that should come out clean.
- 6. Leave cakes to cold in tins.
- Filling and Decoration:1. First make the chocolate ganache: Heat the chocolate (in microwave for 1-2 min, or possibly in a bowl over warm water). Put one and a half pots of Soycreem in a bowl. Beat the melted chocolate into this, This chocolate ganache needs to be spread on the cake before it gets completely cool.
- 2. Turn the cool cakes out of the tins. Spread the top half of the underneath cake with half of the chocolate ganache and cover with black cherries.
- 3. Place remaining cake on top of the other. Spread black cherry jam all round the sides and stick flaked almonds on to this, all the way round.
- 4. Spread remaining chocolate ganache on top of cake. Drizzle the surface with the remaining Soycreem and swirl a knife point over the surface to make an attractive feather design.
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Nutrition Facts
| Amount Per Serving | %DV |
|---|---|
| Serving Size 161g | |
| Recipe makes 8 servings | |
| Calories 482 | |
| Calories from Fat 152 | 32% |
| Total Fat 17.43g | 22% |
| Saturated Fat 1.92g | 8% |
| Trans Fat 0.0g | |
| Cholesterol 0mg | 0% |
| Sodium 524mg | 22% |
| Potassium 365mg | 10% |
| Total Carbs 79.05g | 21% |
| Dietary Fiber 6.0g | 20% |
| Sugars 45.64g | 30% |
| Protein 6.86g | 11% |
