This is a flavorful easy recipe for a baked chocolate cherry cake made with sourdough discard and an a crispy salty walnut cinnamon crust . Its a luscious moist and fudgy summer cake recipe which satisfies all your cravings . Its an easy baking and perfect to use up some of your disacard sourdough. Don’t throw away your sourdough discard bake something delicious.
When you are baking with sourdough your are bound to have some discard . But please don’t throw it way. There are so many delicious things you can make with that discarded sourdough starter like for example my fudgy chocolate cherry cake. This cake recipe satisfies all your taste buds and developes an almost umami flavor because of the sourdough.
chocolate cake recipe, fudgy sourdough starter discard recipes, dessert ideas, chocolate cherry cake. what to do with sourdough discard, one layer cake, easy, cherry cake recipe, cake recipe, summer bake recipe
What would be a summer without a flavorful cherry cake bake? A very sad one I guess. All those sweet ripe cherries need to get baked into a delicious sweet treat. A delicious sweet bake can be such an amazing mood booster and can lighten up almost every mood. At least it’s that for me.
But this sourdough chocolate cherry cake can also be made all through the year with frozen cherries instead of fresh ones. It’s a chocolate cake recipe that’s served warm with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream will be gone in seconds and everybody will cry out for a second a third serving. Cross my heart 😉❤️.
chocolate cake recipe, fudgy sourdough starter discard recipes, dessert ideas, chocolate cherry cake. what to do with sourdough discard, one layer cake, easy, cherry cake recipe, cake recipe, summer bake recipe
What I like the most about this chocolate cherry cake made with sourdough discard
- First it’s great for minimizing your sourdough discard. Nothing is better and more satisfying than cutting down on food waste
- I like how moist and fudgy the cherries make that cake. There is a hint of cinnamon in it which lets this cake recipe become so much more . I always connect cinnamon with childhood memories and thats why I added a hint of cinnamon. Good mood food, right?!?
- There is a hint of cinnamon in it which lets this cake recipe become so much more . I always connect cinnamon with childhood memories and thats why I added a hint of cinnamon. Good mood food, right?!?
- It’s an easy recipe made with mostly pantry stables .
- If you aren’t into sourdough baking but still want to bake that cake that’s no problem at all. Instead of the 200g sourdough discard use 100g water, 100g flour and 1/2 tsp baking powder (all purpose, spelt flour, bread flour…whatever you have at home)
I hope you will enjoy this luscious chocolate cake recipe as much as my family and I do. If you make that recipe please say “Hi” and let me know. What I love the most is hearing from you.
Warm sugary cinnamon hugs Nina ❤️
Are you looking for more cake recipes? Here are some more winter cake recipes for you?:
- Fudgy chocolate orange bundt cake
- Sourdough baked cinnamon apple cake
- Gluten free caramelized fig upside down cake
- Antonia’s favorite apple cake recipe
- Lemon Coconut Cheesecake with meringue kisses
- Easy Victoria sponge cake recipe with berries and cream cheese
Sourdough Baked chocolate cherry cake with salty walnut cinnamon crust – easy sourdough discard recipe
Ingredients
- 250 g cherries Cut in half and pitted. and some more cherries for decoration
- 200 g sourdough discard needs to be taken out of the fridge and come to room temperature 1 hour in advance.
- 30 g butter for the tart form
- 2 tbsp sugar for the tart form
- 4 large eggs separated
- 50 g butter room temperature, very soft
- 50 g vegetable oil
- 200 g white sugar for the egg yolks
- 50 g white sugar for the egg whites
- 100 g spelt flour or all purpose
- 100 g finer chopped walnuts
- 50 g unsweetend cocoa powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
salty walnut crust cinnamon topping
- 50 g chopped walnuts
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 30 g soft butter
Instructions
- Start with beating some air into the discard with a spoon and let the discard come to room temperature for about one hour.
- After the discard has come to room temperature, preheat your oven to 170°Celsius (350°F) aircirculation.
- Butter the inside of your tart form and sugar it out afterwards.
- Mix togehter the spelt flour, finer choopped walnuts, cinnamon, unsweetend cocoa powder and put aside.
- Beat the egg whites with the 50g white sugar in a bowl of a standmixer until stiff and glossy (4-6 minutes). Put the bowl aside.
- In another bowl of your stand mixer mix togehter sourdough discard, 200g white sugar, egg yolks, vegetable oil and butter until creamy . 6 min
- Now fold in alternately the flour mixture and the egg whites in 4 steps into the discard batter and mix everything carefully. Small egg white lumps are totally fine.
- At last fold in 2/3 of the cherries.
- Pour the batter into the cake form and place the rest of the halved cherries gently on top going in circles from the outside to the inside.
- Bake the cake for about 20 minutes .
- Take the cake gently out of the oven and sprinke the salty walnut crust mixture evenly on top. Leave out the edges.
- Bake the cake for 30-40 more minutes until a wooden skewer comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool completely and decorate with more cherries and some chopped dark chocolate .
Salty walnut Cinnamon crust
- When the cake is in the oven for the first 20 minutes mix all ingredients together with a fork or your fingers.
