Chocolate Cherry Cake with Almond Streusel
Schoko-Kirsch-Kuchen mit Mandelstreuseln (Chocolate Cherry Cake with Amond Streusel)
Cheese Pastry:
150 g. cream cheese (room temp, soft)
1/3 cup each of sunflower oil and whole milk, warm
75 g. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
½ tsp. salt
300 g. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
Butter for the pan
Beat cheese, milk, oil, sugar, vanilla, and salt to mix. Add baking powder and flour and knead to a soft, elastic, pliable, non-sticky dough. Butter a 10x15 sheet cake/jelly roll pan. Pat dough into pan with buttered hands and make a rim around the edges.
Filling:
1 package cooked chocolate pudding
2 tablespoons dark cocoa powder
¼ cup sugar
Milk according to package directions (3 cups)
1 lb. pitted sour cherries (I used frozen from my tree)
1 tsp. vanilla
Combine pudding mix, cocoa, and sugar. Stir in milk. Whisk on medium heat until pudding thickens and boils. Stir in cherries and vanilla.
Streusel:
175 g flour
¼ cup sugar
100 gr. butter
50 g. almonds, splinterred or sliced
Mix butter, flour, and sugar until combine, add almonds, and work into a streusel.
Spread chocolate-cherry filling over crust in pan. Break up streusel with fingers and scatter over top of filling. Bake at 350F. for 35 minutes, or until golden brown.
Cool in pan on rack. When cool, decorate with confectioners sugar glaze and/or melted chocolate.
Posting the photo link but it probably won't be of much good since it is posted in a closed German food group I belong to. Posting photos here is just too much of an effort.
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