OK so I had a piping bag explosion so these do look distinctly amateurish. Decorated with freeze dried strawbs, chocolate sprinkles and ridiculous red glacé cherries - I definitely think I need to do better next time with the presentation but they do taste yummy!
Ingredients:
- 125g butter or stork
- 100g darkest dark chocolate
- 340g morello cherry jam
- 2 beaten eggs
- 100g sugar
- 150g self raising flour
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
Filling:
- either: chocolate spread or ganache made with equal weight chocolate melted into cream. Excellent for the arteries (cough)
Icing:
- 200g Cream cheese (full fat and liquid drained)
- 600g icing sugar
- 50g very very very soft butter
- (Note - this makes tons, easily enough for about 20 cakes, but it freezes really well in a tupperware)
Method:
- Melt the butter and chocolate gently together in a pan, then remove from the heat, stir in the eggs, jam and cocoa powder.
- Sift in the flour and sugar until just combined...
- Divide into 12 paper cases (or maybe a couple more) and bake at 180 degrees for about 20 mins...
Then to fill them, cut a little core out and fill with a teaspoon or so of choccy stuff if you like. You can obviously fill or top these little beauties as you like but I am a fan of as much chocolate as possible in this particular scenario!
Squidge the top back on - doesn't matter of it's a bit messy.
Next, to make the icing, whip the butter in a mixer til it's super soft. Then, gently mix in the cheese and icing sugar, then blitz it in the mixer or with an electric whisk for a minute or so until stiff and white and gorgeously bad for you :)
JB x
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