Bake this lovely cherry cake while the red fruits are in season.
It tastes best with cream or ice cream.
Summer brings a lot of delicious fruits to the table: from berries of all kinds to peaches and nectarines to melon. Of course, one summer fruit shouldn't be missing: the cherries. Do you also have a cherry tree in your garden and can hardly save yourself from ripe fruits? But do you want a change from the classic Black Forest cake? Then this cake recipe for a grandiose
covered cherry cake is
just the thing. It tastes just as good with store-bought cherries, of course. Even if the question of whether sweet or sour cherries is basically a matter of taste, we recommend that you
use
sour cherries
in this case
, as they contrast nicely with the sweet dough and can be baked without any problems.
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Servings: 8-10
Preparation time: 40 minutes
Baking time: 60 minutes
400 g flour + a little more for dusting
50 g + 2 tbsp ground almonds
225 g cold butter
75 g powdered sugar
1 pinch of salt
2 egg yolks
800 g cherries
150 g cherry jam
50 g powdered sugar + a little more for dusting
2½ tbsp cornstarch
1 egg white, beaten
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Baking cherry cake: With this recipe it is very easy
For the dough
, put the flour, almonds, butter, powdered sugar and salt in a food processor or bowl and stir all the ingredients until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Whisk the egg yolks with 2 tablespoons of cold water, drizzle this over the flour and butter mixture and knead everything until the dough starts to clump.
Place the dough on a work surface and knead it briefly until it becomes smooth.
Divide the dough into two parts, shape them into round, flat pieces, wrap them in foil and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
For the filling,
remove the stone from the cherries: Either cut the cherries in half and press out the stone or use a cherry stone - for example this one from Westmark (promotional link).
Mix the cherries with jam, powdered sugar and cornstarch to a homogeneous mass.
Preheat the oven to 200 ° C top / bottom heat or 180 ° C circulating air.
Roll out a piece of dough on a work surface dusted with flour so large that you can use it to line the bottom and sides of a 25 cm springform pan.
Tip: lift the dough over the rolling pin into the mold.
If cracks appear, simply patch them up by pushing the dough into all corners and closing any holes.
Scatter the 2 tablespoons of ground almonds on the bottom, then distribute the cherry mixture evenly on top.
Roll out the remaining dough enough to cover the cake.
Place the pastry lid on the cake (in this case, pierce a few holes with a fork so that the steam can escape) or form a
grid pattern
: cut the pastry into any wide strips and place them crosswise, spaced apart between.
Press the edge of the dough together and cut off the excess with a knife.
Coat the pastry lid with a thin layer of whipped egg white.
Dust with powdered sugar if you like.
Bake the cake
in the hot oven
for
55-60 minutes
.
Check it out after 40 minutes.
If the edge is browning too quickly, you can cover it with some foil.
Then take the finished cherry cake out of the oven and let it cool for about an hour.
Be careful: if you cut it too early, the fruit juice will run out.
The
homemade cherry cake
tastes best lukewarm with whipped cream or ice cream.
Have fun baking!
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