Brownie with cherries and chocolate

Brownie with cherries and chocolate is a delicious pastry with a rich chocolate flavor, pleasant cherry sourness, crispy crust and moist center. Brownies with cherries are usually baked in a rectangular shape and cut into squares, served as a cake. However, you can give it the shape of a round cake, this will not affect the taste.

Cooking time: 60 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Calories: 338.

Ingredients

• flour - 100 g;
• sugar - 100 g;
• eggs - 2 pcs;
• butter - 100 g;
• frozen cherries - 200 g;
• bitter chocolate - 150 g;
• cocoa - 20 g.

Cooking

1. To make brownie with cherries and chocolate, you will need the products from the list. It is important to use quality ingredients. Cocoa powder is needed not instant and not sweet, but requiring cooking, chocolate is not milky, but necessarily bitter natural.

2. Cherries are suitable both fresh and defrosted, the main thing is to remove the seeds from the berries. You can do this with a knife if there are no other tools.

3. Break or chop the chocolate into the dishes for the microwave oven or for the stove, add the butter.

4. Melt the ingredients until a homogeneous chocolate mass is obtained. Some housewives like to do this in the microwave, for me it’s more convenient to melt chocolate on the stove, it’s not necessary to do it in a water bath, you can just on the stove, just add a couple of tablespoons of milk or water to the bowl, so that the chocolate does not stick to the bottom of the container and start burning. Constantly stirring with a spoon, we get a homogeneous chocolate paste. We remove the dishes from the fire.

5. Add sugar and cocoa and stir until they are completely dissolved.

6. While the chocolate mixture is cooling, beat the eggs into a bowl and mix them until smooth.

7. Add cherries to melted chocolate.

8. Pour in the egg mixture.

9. Pour in the sifted flour. I recommend not to put all the measured amount of flour at once, but to add it in parts, mixing well each one in order to focus on the consistency of the dough. Since flour varies in quality and density, and this, in turn, affects the density of the dough. The classic brownie recipe does not contain baking powder, because this is not a simple biscuit, but a wet chocolate cake, we don’t need to get special splendor of baking.

10. It is advisable to bake the cake on parchment in the form of a square or rectangular, not very large, so that it does not turn out to be too low. Bake at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes. You can check the readiness of the cake with a toothpick. At the exit, it should be dry. But we have an unusual cake, when ready, the cherry and chocolate brownie should be dry on the outside and moist and tender on the inside. Therefore, it is important not to overdo it in the oven.

11. After the cake is taken out of the oven, you need to let it cool down a bit and cut it into squares. On top of the cake, you can pour liquid chocolate, syrup or sprinkle with powdered sugar, decorate with fresh cherries.