My dear friend/neighbour invited us for dinner one night and I offered to bring dessert. I spotted some frozen cherries at our grocery store and picked them up thinking they would be a good ingredient for dessert in a pinch, not thinking that pinch would be sooner than later. I’ve made these squares before, without the chocolate ribbons so I wanted to update the recipe, and because, as JT said, “What could possibly be wrong with cherries and chocolate?” You be the judge.
Chocolate Cherry Squares
A Kitcheninspirations original recipe
Makes one pan 23 cm x 33 cm (9” x 13”) about 20 squares
Ingredients:
- 300 g frozen cherries, defrosted and drained
- 3 eggs separated
- 120 g unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 125 g caster sugar
- 250 g flour
- 25 g baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 125 mL cream
- 150 g Belgian milk chocolate
- 50 mL cream
Directions:
- Grease and flour 9” x 13” x 2” baking pan (22cm x 33cm x 5cm).
- Preheat oven to 350° F (175°C)
- Heat the cream until almost boiling and pour over the chocolate and stir until entirely melted. Allow to cool.
- Whip the egg whites until stiff but not dry (should be able to stand in a peak) – no need to wash the beater if you do it in this order, if you cream the yolks first, then you must wash the beater and dry thoroughly).
- Cream the egg yolks with butter and sugar until light and fluffy (should be a lighter shade of yellow).
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt – dry ingredients.
- Alternating dry ingredients with the milk, fold into egg yolk mixture.
- Gently fold beaten egg whites into the mixture.
- Spoon about half of the batter into greased pan. Note the batter is quite thick, you will have to spread it into the cake pan with an offset spatula. Drizzle the milk chocolate ganache over the batter and spoon the remaining batter on top, speading evenly with the offset spatula.
- Dot with the cherries throughout (you may want to give each cherry a squeeze as you dot so ensure there are no pits!).
- Bake in preheated oven for about 20 to 30 minutes (test with a toothpick to make sure it’s done).
- Cool in the pan (don’t cut until it is entirely cool otherwise it will become ‘bacony’ or szalonás, as the Hungarians put it).
Your cherry chocolate squares look great! I love that the chocolate gets baked onto the squares. That seems interesting. I bet frozen cherries are perfect for this.
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YUM! I always have a bag of frozen cherries on hand—I love to snack on them. Alas, Bill only likes his cherries in Kool-Aid, but I’d love to munch on these yummy bars.
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Wonderful! This looks wonderful.
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JT was right 🙂 Chocolate and cherries are amazing together. And these dessert bars look fabulous, Eva.
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