Chocolate and Cherry Wave Cake
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55 minutes
This is a traditional German marbled cake known as a 'Danube Wave' that symbolises the waves at Danube. Flavoured with cherries, vanilla cream and a chocolate covering it is easier to make than you might think.
Hanni
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Ingredients
Serves: 6
- Cake
- 260g butter
- 1 cup (250g) sugar
- 6 eggs
- 2 3/4 cups (340g) plain flour
- 5 teaspoons baking powder
- 3 level tablespoons cocoa
- 1 jar sour cherries, drained
- Cream
- 1 packet instant pudding vanilla flavour
- milk, as required to make pudding
- Decoration
- 90g chocolate, melted, to taste
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:35min ›
Ready in:55min
- Cake: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
- Beat butter until fluffy then gradually stir in sugar and eggs. Mix flour, baking powder and add to the mixture.
- Grease a baking tray or line with baking paper. Spread half of the mixture on the prepared baking tray.
- Mix the cocoa with the remaining mixture and spread over the light mixture. Use a fork to mix the light and dark mixtures together to create a marbled effect.
- Drain the sour cherries then spread them across the cake mixture and press down lightly.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 35-40 minutes. Then remove the cake from the oven and cool.
- Cream: Mix the instant pudding with the milk according to the instructions on the packaging.
- Decoration: Apply a layer of the pudding to the cake then coat with melted chocolate, to taste.
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Reviews and Ratings
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Great taste and easy to make. Used whipped cream in place of vanilla pudding (not stocked locally), and added at last minute - 04 Jun 2015 (Review from Allrecipes UK & Ireland)