No 4

Chocolate Cherry Cake

I have to be prepared to publish my disasters - don't I?

We moved house nearly 3 years ago right on top of my partner’s birthday.  Lots of housewarming morning teas coincided with a need for  birthday cake.  So I made a chocolate cherry brownie.  It was dark, moist, heavy, rich, smooth on the palate with beautiful glacé cherries throughout.

Do you think I can find that recipe?  I cannot.  I even tidied up my recipe folder, filed things, stuck slips of paper and recipes scribbled on cardboard packaging etc into the correct categories, but no chocolate cherry brownie.  I vaguely recalled condensed milk.....

I pulled a chocolate/cherry brownie recipe off he internet.  It described itself as brownie.  It was cake.  Cake pure and simple.  (Brownie fans will know what I mean.)  It was light, relatively dry, disappointing; so disappointing I have scrapped all record of it – sent it packing to look for the real thing....’and don’t come back until you’re bringing it with you!...’ and won’t be reproducing it here.

Chocolate cake recipes abound and virtually all have more to recommend them (even as cake) than that one.