Spice Cake with Cherries
Description
Homemade baked goods for tea. Fragrant and delicious baked goods have always been a welcome guest at the table—and not only on holidays, but on weekdays too. I offer a recipe that is, alas, not a brand-name product, but very tasty and unfairly pushed aside in favor of fashionable modern cupcakes, brownies, and cheesecakes. The simplest natural, affordable ingredients will, with your care, become a magnificent sweet honey kovrizhka with cherry streaks and a light tart cherry note. Both family and guests will truly appreciate such a dessert with tea, compote, or coffee. Serve warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for making cherry kovrizhka.
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Step 2
Peel the walnuts and chop them using any method. The degree of chopping is up to your taste.
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Step 3
You can use any cherries: fresh or frozen. Mine are dried. Cut each cherry in half.
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Step 4
Pour water into a saucepan or small pan. Add vegetable oil, sugar, honey, and instant coffee. Place over heat and warm for 3–5 minutes until the sugar dissolves.
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Step 5
In a separate deep bowl, add sifted flour, cinnamon, salt, and baking powder.
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Step 6
Pour the honey, sugar, and coffee dissolved in water, together with vegetable oil, into the bowl with the dry ingredients. Mix thoroughly, or preferably blend with a blender.
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Step 7
Add the chopped nuts and sliced cherries to the same bowl as well.
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Step 8
Mix all ingredients thoroughly. The dough is ready.
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Step 9
Transfer the dough to the pan. If your pan isn’t non-stick, line the bottom with parchment paper.
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Step 10
Bake the kovrig in an oven preheated to 180–185 °C for 40–45 minutes. Check whether it’s done by inserting a wooden skewer.
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Step 11
Cool the finished cherry gingerbread cake, slice it, and serve. But it’s better to place it in a saucepan, cover with a lid, and let it sit that way for a day. It will become tastier and softer.