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Ingredients
Chocolate sponge
- 4 eggs
- 140 g white sugar, plus extra for sprinkling
- 20 g cocoa powder
- 140 g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
Black forest filling
- 500 g pouring (whipping) cream
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 30 g cocoa powder, sieved
- 2 - 3 tbsp Kirsch (see Tips)
- 300 g fresh cherries, pitted and cut into halves (see Tips)
- icing sugar, for dusting
- Nutrition
- per 1 portion
- Calories
- 1334.7 kJ / 317.8 kcal
- Protein
- 5.5 g
- Carbohydrates
- 34.6 g
- Fat
- 17.6 g
- Saturated fat
- 10.6 g
- Fiber
- 1.8 g
- Sodium
- 66.8 mg
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