Amarena Cuts

Preparation:

1. Line the rectangular shape with a high rim (possibly a roaster) with baking paper. Drain both glasses of cherries separately through a sieve and keep the juice underneath. Provide. Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

Dough:

1. Mix the butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and salt until creamy. Gradually stir in the egg yolks and eggs and beat vigorously.

1. Add the rum aroma, yoghurt and the collected juice of the Amarena cherries (for me it was 6 tablespoons) and stir well.

1. Mix cocoa, flour, cornstarch, baking powder and grated almonds in a bowl and gradually add to the butter mixture while stirring. Stir until a creamy mixture has formed.

1. Fold in the long and well-drained, slightly mixed Amarena and black cherries and pour everything into the pan. Smooth out slightly, the dough will run when baking anyway.

1. Now bake for 45 – 50 minutes. Make a trial. The dough must no longer stick. Then switch off the oven immediately, open the door if necessary and let the cake cool down there for a few minutes.

1. Then take it out immediately and let it cool down further.

Molding:

1. Melt the block chocolate over a water bath (temperature not too hot) and add the coconut oil. Stir well until it has dissolved. Let it cool down a little and have it ready.

1. Turn the well-cooled cake platter onto an appropriately sized surface and carefully peel off the baking paper. Then drizzle the surface completely with a few tablespoons of the juice of the black cherries and pour the chocolate mixture over it. If possible, it should not run down.

1. Let the chocolate mass set overnight, if necessary scratch a pattern into it with a fork and decorate with the shaved white chocolate.

Tip:

1. The photos show that I left the cake, including the baking paper, in the mold and covered it with the icing there. That was not a good idea. It didn’t run down like that, but I couldn’t get the baking paper off (actually logical, but you don’t do it and therefore better!) Unfortunately, I (for whatever reason) only thought of falling afterwards. Everything worked out anyway, but of course it would have been nicer without paper.

1. Regarding the cherries, it should be said that the black cherries are black sweet cherries (found at Edeka). They also have a slight Amarena flavor, but aren’t quite as sweet and also not that expensive. The small glass was then cherries for the intense Amarena taste. That’s enough, otherwise the cake will be too sweet.