Drunk cherry cake - 8 recipes at home

There are many homemade cake recipes that are very popular. Each of them has its own flavor. The "Drunken Cherry" cake harmoniously combines airy biscuit cakes, delicate cream and cherries soaked in strong alcohol, which gives the dessert an original taste. According to the 8 recipes collected in the article, you will get great cakes.

The classic recipe for the cake "Drunken cherry" of the Soviet era

That "Drunken Cherry" has such a name because its filling contains cherries soaked in strong alcohol. The cake is fragrant and juicy.

Cooking time: 2 days.

Cooking time: 80 minutes

Servings: 8.

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  First you need to prepare the "drunk cherry". Remove the seeds from the cherries. Leave a few cherries with seeds for decoration.
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  Put pitted cherries in one jar and pitted cherries in the other. Pour cognac over the berries and leave for 1-2 days.
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  Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa. Sift the resulting mixture through a sieve.
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  Beat eggs in a separate bowl, add vegetable oil and milk to them, stir. Add dry ingredients, mix until smooth. Then pour in boiling water in a thin stream and mix the dough quickly.
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  Cover the baking dish with parchment paper, lay out the dough and send it to the oven preheated to 190 degrees. Bake the biscuit for 1.5 hours. Cool the sponge cake slightly, remove from the mold and place on a wire rack.
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  When the biscuit has completely cooled down, it is necessary to make a "box" from it. Use a sharp knife to cut the top of the sponge cake about 1.5 centimeters wide.
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  Then, core out the biscuit, leaving edges 1-1.5 centimeters thick.
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  Transfer the pulp to a bowl and crush it into crumbs.
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  Throw the pitted cherries on a sieve, leave the liquid.
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  Beat the softened butter with a mixer.
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  Separately, mix 2/3 of the cherry brandy with the condensed milk. Add this mixture to the whipped butter, add cocoa and stir.
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  Mix biscuit crumbs with cherries and cream.
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  Fill the biscuit base with the resulting mass.
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  Cover the top of the cake with the previously cut top and press lightly.
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  Prepare the icing. Melt the butter over low heat, add the powdered sugar to it and stir. Then add 1/3 of the cherry and cocoa cognac and stir. Next, add starch, mix the glaze well again.
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  Then add the bitter chocolate, broken into wedges. Stir constantly until the chocolate is completely dissolved. Remove frosting from heat and let cool slightly.
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  Cover the cake with chocolate icing, garnish with whole cherries, let it brew a little. Then you can enjoy this great treat.

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"Drunk cherry" cake according to the recipe of Emma's grandmother

The Drunken Cherry cake is beautiful, juicy and very tasty. Although its preparation takes quite a long period of time, the result will exceed all your expectations.

Cooking time: 1 day.

Cooking time: 120 minutes

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• For the test:
• Chicken eggs - 9 pcs.
• Sugar - 180 gr.
• Wheat flour - 130 gr.
• Cocoa - 80 gr.
• For the cream:
• Butter - 300 gr.
• Condensed milk - 400 ml.
• For filling:
• Pitted cherries - 2.5 tbsp
• Cognac - 0.5 tbsp.
• Sugar - 2 tablespoons
• For glaze:
• Cream - 180 ml.
• Bitter chocolate - 150 gr.
• Butter - 25 gr.
• Sugar - 25 gr.

Cooking process:

1. One day before preparing the cake, put the cherries in a bowl, add sugar and pour in the cognac, stir and leave at room temperature.
2. Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Beat the whites until a fluffy foam forms, gradually add 90 grams of sugar, stir and set aside. In another bowl, beat the egg yolks with the remaining sugar.
3. Sift flour into a bowl, add cocoa and stir. Add half of the protein mass to the beaten yolks, mix them with slow movements. Then add flour and cocoa to a bowl, mix. Then add the remaining whipped egg whites into the dough and stir.
4. Cover the form with baking paper, put the dough in it. Bake the sponge cake at 180 degrees for 50-60 minutes. Check readiness with a wooden skewer.
5. Remove the slightly cooled biscuit from the mold, place on the wire rack and cool completely.
6. After a day, discard the cherries in a colander, collect the remaining cognac.
7. For the cream, beat the butter with a mixer, gradually add condensed milk into it and bring the cream until smooth.
8. From the cooled biscuit, cut off the top 1.5 centimeters thick. Cut out the flesh, leaving the edges 1.5 centimeters thick. Saturate the bottom and sides of the biscuit with cognac, which remained after the cherry.
9. In a bowl of cream, add cherries and biscuit pulp, stir. Put the resulting mass in a biscuit base and cover with the cut top. Place the cake in the refrigerator.
10. Start making the icing. Pour cream into a saucepan, add sugar to it and heat this mixture. Add dark chocolate to the hot cream and stir with a spatula until the chocolate is completely dissolved. Then add soft butter and smooth the glaze.
11. Take the cake out of the fridge and cover it with chocolate icing. Sprinkle the sides of the cake with chocolate or biscuit crumbs. Place the cake in the refrigerator for soaking for 3 hours. Then serve the Drunken Cherry cake on the festive table.

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Step-by-step recipe for making a cake "Drunken cherry" in chocolate

A magnificent cake that will decorate your festive table. Thanks to the special method of assembly and impregnation, the "Drunken Cherry" is juicy and fragrant. And the combination of cherries and chocolate is a taste proven over the years.

Cooking time: 80 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• For the test:
• Wheat flour - 2 tbsp.
• Chicken eggs - 10 pcs.
• Sugar - 2.5 tbsp.
• Cocoa - 50 gr.
• For the cream:
• Cocoa - 50 gr.
• Butter - 600 gr.
• Milk - 6 tablespoons
• Sugar - 3 tbsp.
• Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
• For filling:
• Cherries - 2.5 tbsp
• Cognac - 1.5 tbsp.
• For glaze:
• Chocolate - 100 gr.
• Vanilla sugar - 20 gr.
• Milk - 2 tablespoons

Cooking process:

1. Beat the eggs and sugar until a homogeneous thick mass is formed. Then place the container on the table, continue beating until the egg mass has cooled. Next, add the sifted flour and cocoa, mix the ingredients with a spatula using gentle, slow movements. Put the dough in a mold and bake the sponge cake at 180 degrees for 50-60 minutes.
2. For cream, mix cocoa with a little sugar, pour in milk and put the mixture on fire. Heat it until the sugar dissolves and the cream boils. Remove the pan from heat, cool the cream. Then add the remaining sugar, softened butter and eggs. Beat the cream until all the sugar is completely dissolved.
3. Remove the seeds from the cherries, put the berries in a jar, fill with cognac and leave to infuse for 2 days. Before preparing the cake, put the cherries on a strainer, pour the cognac into a separate container.
4. Cut the finished biscuit in half, cut the pulp from each half, leaving the walls 1-1.5 centimeters thick.
5. Mix the pulp of the biscuit with ½ part of the cherry and 1/3 of the cream.
6. Grease the biscuit halves with cream and put in them a mass of biscuit, cherry and cream. Fold the cake halves so the filling stays inside.
7. Melt the chocolate in a water bath, add milk and vanilla sugar. Pour chocolate over the cake and place it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. After that, the cake can be served with tea or coffee.

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How to make homemade drunk cherry cake with sour cream?

The main ingredient of this dessert is a cherry soaked in strong alcohol; it is better to prepare it a couple of days before making the cake. It is thanks to this ingredient that the dessert has such an interesting name and pleasant notes of bitterness in the taste.

Cooking time: 4-5 hours.

Cooking time: 80 minutes

Servings: 8-10.

Ingredients:

• For biscuit:
• Chicken eggs - 9 pcs.
• Sugar - 375 gr.
• Flour - 375 gr.
• Cocoa - 3 tablespoons
• Vanilla sugar - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for lubricating the mold.
• For the cream:
• Sour cream 20% - 450 ml.
• Sugar - 400 gr.
• Pitted cherries in alcohol - 500 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Separate the whites from the yolks and beat them until a white, stable foam forms. Then gradually add regular and vanilla sugar, continue to beat. Then add the yolks one at a time, stir.
2. After this add sifted flour and cocoa, knead the dough with a spatula with slow movements in one direction.
3. Cover a baking dish with parchment and grease with oil, put the dough in it. Bake the sponge cake at 180 degrees for 40-60 minutes.
4. Cool the finished biscuit, cut a layer 1-1.5 centimeters wide from it. Cut out the flesh from the majority, leaving the edges 1 centimeter thick.
5. Beat the sour cream with sugar until a homogeneous thick cream is obtained. Then mix the cream with the pulp of the biscuit and some of the alcohol-laden cherries. Put the resulting mass in most of the biscuit base.
6. Place the previously cut piece of biscuit back in place, decorate the cake as you like, and refrigerate for soaking. You can use leftover cherries, cream, or biscuit crumbs for decoration.

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A simple and delicious recipe for "Drunken cherry" in a slow cooker

Awesome cake for a cup of aromatic coffee. The Drunken Cherry cake has a delicious alcoholized cherry filling inside the biscuit. It doesn't matter if you don't have an oven. A sponge cake for this dessert can be baked in a slow cooker.

Cooking time: 4-5 hours.

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Cherries in alcohol - 1 l.
• Flour - 2 tbsp.
• Chicken eggs - 8 pcs.
• Sugar - 1 tbsp.
• Sour cream - 4 tablespoons
• Cocoa - 4 tablespoons
• Butter - 250 gr.
• Condensed milk - 500 ml.
• Vanilla sugar - 10 gr.
• Chocolate glaze - for decoration.

Cooking process:

1. Separate the yolks from the proteins. Whisk the whites together with the sugar separately.
2. Mix the yolks with sour cream and vanilla sugar.
3. Then combine these two masses and gradually add the sifted flour and cocoa.
4. Grease the multicooker bowl with butter and sprinkle with flour. Place the dough in a bowl.
5. Bake the sponge cake for 70 minutes. Be sure to let the finished biscuit cool completely.
6. Cut a layer 1-1.5 centimeters thick from the cooled biscuit. Remove the pulp from the remaining part, leave the walls 1-1.5 centimeters thick. Saturate the bottom and sides of the cake with syrup containing cherries.
7. Prepare the filling for the cake. Whisk softened butter and condensed milk. Mix the resulting cream with cherries and biscuit crumbs.
8. Put the filling in the biscuit base, cover it with the cut part. Pour icing on the cake and garnish with cherries. Place the dessert in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to soak. Then you can treat your loved ones with this delicious cake.

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Drunk cherry cake with custard at home

This is one of the most delicious homemade desserts. Chocolate sponge cake filled with delicate custard cream with biscuit crumbs and alcohol-coated cherries. The berries that make up the cake gave it such a name - "Drunken cherry".

Cooking time: 1 day.

Cooking time: 90 minutes

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• To soak cherries:
• Cherries - 2.5 tbsp
• Sugar - 2 tablespoons
• Cognac - 0.5 tbsp.
• For biscuit:
• Chicken eggs - 9 pcs.
• Sugar - 180 gr.
• Flour - 130 gr.
• Baking powder for dough - 0.5 tsp.
• Cocoa - 80 gr.
• Vegetable oil - for lubricating the mold.
• For the cream:
• Milk - 1 l.
• Sugar - 320 gr.
• Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
• Flour - 120 gr.
• Butter - 20 gr.
• Vanilla sugar - 10 gr.
• For glaze:
• Cream - 180 ml.
• Sugar - 30 gr.
• Bitter chocolate - 150 gr.
• Butter - 30 gr.

Cooking process:

1. The day before making the cake, mix the pitted cherries with sugar and cognac. Cover the bowl with cling film and refrigerate for a day.
2. Knead the biscuit dough. Separate the yolks from the whites. Whisk the whites until white, then add 90 grams of sugar and continue whisking until crisp peaks.
3. In a separate bowl, beat the yolks with the remaining sugar until whitened.
4. Mix flour, baking powder and cocoa separately.
5. Put half of the protein mass on the beaten yolks, slowly mix them in a circular motion in one direction.
6. Then mix the protein-yolk mass with dry ingredients. When the mixture is smooth, add the second half of the proteins to the mixture. The dough should be thick and flowing.
7. Cover the bottom of the mold with baking paper, grease the sides with vegetable oil. Pour the dough into the mold.
8. Bake the sponge cake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 60 minutes. Cool the finished biscuit a little in the form. Then take it out and place it on a wire rack until it cools completely.
9. Prepare the cream. Pour milk into a saucepan and add sugar. Put the saucepan on fire, heat its contents until the sugar is completely dissolved. Break eggs into a bowl and mix with flour. Add half of the hot milk little by little to the bowl and stir the ingredients immediately with a mixer.
10. Pour the resulting mass into a saucepan to the rest of the hot milk and simmer the cream over low heat until thickened.
11. Remove the cream from heat, add butter and vanilla sugar to it. stir. Let the cream cool completely.
12. Cut the cooled biscuit into two parts. Cut the flesh out of the cakes without damaging the walls of the baking dish.
13. Drain the liquid from the cherries. It can be used to soak the cakes from the inside. This will make them even juicier and more fragrant.
14. Assemble the cake filling. In a bowl, combine the custard, cherries, and biscuit crumbs. Place the filling in a biscuit base.
15. Cover the cake with the other half of the biscuit.
16. It remains to cook the chocolate icing. Pour cream into a saucepan, add sugar. Put the pan on fire, heat its contents until the sugar dissolves. Chop chocolate into a bowl, pour hot cream over it and stir until smooth.
17. Add softened butter to the glaze, stir until smooth.
18. Pour icing on the cake and decorate as you like. Place the cake in the refrigerator for soaking for several hours, then serve with tea.

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Incredibly delicious recipe for the cake "Drunken cherry" without the addition of alcohol

The Drunk Cherry cake contains alcohol, so some mothers are afraid to prepare it for children's parties. We will show you how to prepare this amazing dessert without the use of alcohol and with an equally delicious taste.

Cooking time: 5-6 hours.

Cooking time: 120 minutes

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 3 tbsp.
• Cocoa - 6 tablespoons
• Sugar - 2 tbsp.
• Baking powder for dough - 1 tsp.
• Water - 1 tbsp.
• Milk - 1.5 tbsp.
• Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
• Cherries - 150 gr.
• Butter - 180 gr.
• Condensed milk - 100 ml.
• For glaze:
• Cocoa - 3 tablespoons
• Sugar - 4 tablespoons
• Milk - 100 ml.
• Butter - 50 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Sift the flour through a sieve.
2. Also sift the cocoa to avoid lumps. Add sugar and baking powder.
3. Whisk eggs and milk separately.
4. Mix the bulk ingredients with the milk and egg mixture. Then pour in a glass of boiling water and stir quickly. The consistency of the dough should resemble thick sour cream.
5. Cover the mold with parchment and place the dough in it. Bake the sponge cake at 180 degrees for 60 minutes.
6. When the biscuit is completely cool, cut off a 1-1.5 centimeter thick cap from it. Use a small spoon or hand to remove the pulp from the larger part, leaving the walls 1 centimeter thick.
7. Cherries for the cake are suitable both fresh and frozen. The main thing is that it is pitted. Mix cherries and juice from it with biscuit crumbs.
8. Whisk softened butter and condensed milk in a separate bowl.
9. Then, combine the cherries, biscuit crumbs and buttercream. Put the resulting filling in a biscuit base. Place the cut cap on top and place the cake in the refrigerator.
10. Prepare the icing. Pour milk into a saucepan, put on fire, add sugar and cocoa, cook the mixture until thickened. Then remove the glaze from the heat, add butter to it, mix until smooth. Pour icing on the cake and decorate as you like. This version of the cake "Drunken Cherry" will appeal to children and adults.

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Delicate and airy cake "Drunk cherry" with cream

The preparation of the Drunk Cherry cake is a rather long and laborious process. But thanks to these efforts, you will get a delicious dessert that will melt in your mouth, leaving a pleasant aftertaste.

Cooking time: 8 ocloc'k.

Cooking time: 90 minutes

Servings: 6-8.

Ingredients:

• Pitted cherries - 500 gr.
• Vodka - 200 ml.
• Chicken eggs - 5 pcs.
• Cocoa - 2 tablespoons
• Flour - 12 tablespoons
• Sugar - 3 tbsp.
• Milk - 1 tbsp.
• Cream - 300 ml.
• White chocolate - 100 gr.
• Black chocolate - 100 gr.
• Butter - 30 gr.
• Coconut flakes - for decoration.

Cooking process:

1. Put the cherries in a bowl and cover with vodka, leave for 6 hours. Instead of vodka, you can use cognac or other strong alcohol.
2. Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Beat the yolks with a glass of sugar. As a result, you should have a light foam mass.
3. In another bowl, beat the egg whites with a glass of sugar.
4. First, carefully mix the whipped whites and yolks, then sift the flour and cocoa, knead the biscuit dough.
5. Cover the mold with parchment and place the dough in it.
6. Bake the biscuit at 200 degrees for 40-60 minutes. Cool the finished biscuit completely.
7. Using a small spoon, remove the pulp from the crust, leaving the walls 1 centimeter thick. Saturate the inside of the base with the syrup in which the cherries were pickled.
8. Whisk the cream until a firm white foam. Combine them with cherries and biscuit crumbs. This will serve as the filling for the cake. If the mass seems dry to you, add a couple of tablespoons of milk to it.
9. Put the filling in a biscuit base, tamp it.
10. Melt white and dark chocolate in a water bath, add softened butter and stir. Pour this mixture over the cake, garnish with cherries and coconut. The cake can be served directly on the table or you can give it a couple of hours to soak.

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