Proper Dark Woods Gateau

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Ingredients

6 medium eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
250g golden caster sugar
50g cocoa powder
100g patently flour
150g unsalted butter, melted together with cooled, summation extra for greasing
150g nighttime chocolate
3 tbsp raspberry preserve
40 pitted dark cherries, fresh or tinned
For the syrup
175g golden caster sugar
2 tbsp kirsch
For the kirsch cream
750ml whipping cream
75g golden caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 tbsp kirsch

Get ahead

Bake the cakes a 24-hour interval ahead together with shop inwards an airtight tin
First, brand the sponges. Preheat the oven to 180°C, fan 160°C, gas 4. Grease three x 22cm-diameter sandwich cake tins together with trouble the bases amongst baking paper.
In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, vanilla together with saccharide together using an electrical mitt whisk until thick together with the whisk leaves a trail – it volition accept most 10 minutes. Sift the cocoa pulverization together with flour together, thence crease in. Stir inwards the melted butter.
Divide the cake mixture betwixt the tins together with bake for 20-25 minutes, or until springy to the touch. Cool inwards the tins for v minutes, thence plow out on to a rack to cool completely.
Shave the block of chocolate using a murphy peeler or yesteryear scraping the blade of a kitchen knife across the surface. Chill the shavings.
To brand the syrup, seat 200ml H2O together with the saccharide inwards a pan; choose to the boil for v minutes. Leave to cool; stir inwards the kirsch. To brand the kirsch cream, whip the cream together with saccharide to theatre peaks, thence crease inwards the vanilla together with kirsch.
To gather the cake, degree the tops of the sponges using a precipitous knife, if necessary. Place a piddling kirsch cream on a serving plate together with secure i of the sponges on top. Brush the sponge amongst some of the syrup; spread over the raspberry preserve.
Sandwich together amongst a 2nd sponge together with brush i time again amongst the syrup. Spread over a layer of the kirsch cream, most 1cm (½in) deep. Cover amongst the cherries, reserving 8.
Spread a piddling to a greater extent than cream over the cherries, thence top amongst the end sponge, upside down, to give an even, apartment top. Brush amongst syrup (you may attain got a piddling syrup left).
Spoon a quarter of the remaining cream into a pipe pocketbook fitted amongst a large star nozzle; gear upward aside. Using a palette knife, encompass the top together with sides of the cake amongst the residual of the cream.
Stick the chocolate shavings over the sides of the cake amongst your palm. Pipe only about the border of the cake together with 8 swirls inwards the middle; house the reserved cherries on the swirls.