Many of us are familiar with the concept"taste of childhood". So the cake "Cherry Hill" comes from childhood. Its recipe was very popular in home cooking in Soviet and early post-Soviet times. The recipe is actually quite common today, and you can make this cake from different types of dough.
"Cherry Hill" made from honey dough
The honey dough recipe is also very popular inhome cooking. It is used to make gingerbread and cookies, as well as all kinds of cakes. For example, every self-respecting housewife has a recipe for honey cake in her notebook. However, you can also make a cherry cake from this dough. Ingredients:
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 3 cups of flour;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 2 tablespoons of honey;
- 1 teaspoon of hydrated soda;
- Half a cherry.
For the cream:
- 1 kilogram of sour cream;
- 2 cups of sugar;
- 1 egg white.
For decoration:
- Chocolate;
- Nuts.
Preparation:Break the eggs into a bowl and grind them with sugar until white. Add liquid honey, baking soda slaked with vinegar and mix everything thoroughly. Now pour in the sifted flour, kneading a fairly stiff but soft dough, which we divide into fifteen equal parts. Roll out a small flat cake from each resulting piece of dough on a table sprinkled with flour. Place the cherries on one loaf of flat cake (in a row!) and roll it into a roll. The edges of the roll need to be sealed so that the juice from the cherries does not flow out during baking. Roll up the rest of the flat cakes in the same way. As a result, we should get fifteen tubes with cherry filling. Place the tubes on a greased baking sheet and put it in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Bake the rolls for thirty minutes. In the meantime, prepare the cream for the cake. Mix the cooled sour cream with the egg white and add sugar, then mix the resulting mass thoroughly and beat with a mixer. After that, place the container with the cream in a water bath and, stirring constantly, heat until the mass increases in volume by one and a half times. Then remove the cream from the water bath and cool. Take the finished tubes out of the oven and carefully remove them from the baking sheet. When the cherry rolls have cooled down a little, start assembling the cake. Take a dish and lay out a row of five tubes so that the rolls touch with their long sides. Fill them with sour cream cream and sprinkle with chopped nuts. Put a row of four rolls on top, which we also fill with cream and sprinkle with nuts. The third row - three tubes, cream and nuts. The fourth row - two tubes, cream and nuts. We crown our cake with the only remaining tube and fill it with sour cream. Sprinkle the cake with chocolate shavings and leave it to soak for a few hours. That's it - our cake "Cherry Hill" is ready! Cool it and serve. The recipe is quite simple, and the result is unexpectedly spectacular. This cake looks especially original when cut.
"Cherry Hill" made from sour cream dough
For this version of "Cherry Hill" we use a sour cream dough recipe. By the way, this recipe can also be used to make a layered cake "Napoleon". Ingredients:
- 4 cups of wheat flour;
- 1 cup of sour cream;
- 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar;
- A packet of margarine or butter;
- Fresh or canned cherries without pits;
- A pinch of salt.
For the cream:
- About a kilogram of fatty sour cream;
- Half a glass of sugar;
- A packet of vanilla sugar;
- Chocolate.
Preparation:Place the cooled butter or margarine in a bowl, add sour cream, salt and sifted flour. Now, using a regular knife or a culinary hatchet, chop all the ingredients into crumbs, and then begin kneading the dough with your hands. The result should be a fairly soft and dense dough, which should be put in the refrigerator for two hours. While the dough is cooling, place the cherries in a colander and sprinkle with sugar. Leave the cherries in the colander to drain all the excess juice. After two hours, take the dough out of the refrigerator and divide it into three parts. Roll each part of the dough into a square flat cake with sides measuring approximately twenty-five centimeters. Cut each pancake into five strips. Take one strip, place the cherries along its length and pinch the edges of the dough to make a closed tube. In this way, prepare tubes from all the dough. There should be fifteen of them. Now we put all the tubes on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour and put it in the oven, which we preheat to 180-200 degrees. Bake the tubes until golden brown, then take them out of the oven and cool. While the tubes are cooling, make the cream for the cake. Whip sour cream with granulated sugar and vanilla sugar until the mixture thickens. Now you can assemble the cake. The principle is the same - we put the tubes in rows, forming a hill out of them. The first row - five tubes filled with cream. The second row - four tubes and cream. Three more tubes and cream on top. Then we put two tubes, pour cream over them, and put the last one on top and pour cream over the entire cake. Sprinkle our cake with shredded chocolate and leave to soak. Then we cool the cake and taste it.
"Cherry Hill" made from biscuit
We offer you a recipe for a simplified version of Cherry Hill. This recipe will allow you to save time and prepare a very tasty and juicy cherry cake. Ingredients:
- 2 chicken eggs;
- Incomplete glass of granulated sugar;
- 1 cup of wheat flour;
- 150 grams of sour cream;
- 1 teaspoon baking soda;
- 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder.
For the cream:
- 1 glass of fatty sour cream;
- A packet of vanilla sugar;
- Half a glass of sugar.
For decoration:
- Half a cup of canned cherries without pits;
- A handful of raisins;
- A handful of chopped nuts;
- Chocolate bar.
Preparation: First you need to make the dough.To do this, break the eggs into a bowl, add sour cream and sugar, then mix and lightly beat the mixture with a mixer. Next, add unslaked soda, mix and add cocoa powder and sifted flour. Knead the biscuit dough to the consistency of sour cream. Turn on the oven and heat it up to 180-200 degrees. While the oven is heating up, grease the baking pan with vegetable oil and sprinkle with flour. Important! You should not take a very wide pan - no more than twenty centimeters in diameter. Otherwise, the finished cake will be flat. If you bake the cake in a large pan, then you just need to increase the amount of ingredients for the dough and, accordingly, for the cream. Send the pan to the oven and bake the cake for half an hour (plus or minus five minutes). Readiness is checked by testing with a dry toothpick. Remove the finished cake from the oven, cool slightly and remove from the mold. When the sponge cake has completely cooled, cut it into three cakes. Prepare the cream from sour cream, granulated sugar and vanilla sugar by simply mixing the sour cream with sugar and whipping it with a mixer. Assemble the cake. Place one cake on a plate, coat it with a third of the cream and put some cherries on it. Place the second cake on top and also coat it with cream. Cut the third cake into cubes and mix them with the remaining cream and cherries. Place the resulting mass on top of the cake, forming a hill. Sprinkle the cake with washed and dried raisins and chopped nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts, peanuts or any others). Pour melted chocolate on top. This recipe is also good because the cake does not need to soak for a long time - fifteen minutes is enough! After this, our "Cherry Hill" is completely ready - you can serve the cake on the table. By the way, for the traditional "Cherry Hill" cake, you can use almost any sweet dough from which you can bake tubes with cherries. So do not be afraid to experiment. Perhaps you will be able to invent your own recipe for the "Cherry Hill" cake. The main thing is to cook with pleasure. Bon appetit and success in the culinary field!
