CHOCOLATE CHERRY RIPE SLICE GLUTEN FREE RECIPE
Ingredients
  • 250g unsalted butter, chopped
  • 250g 70% dark cooking chocolate, chopped
  • 1 cup caster sugar
  • 6 eggs, lightly whisked
  • ¾ cup plain gluten free flour, sifted
  • ¾ cup organic desiccated coconut, sifted
  • ½ cup raw cacao, sifted
  • 2 -3 cups fresh cherries, pitted
  • Chocolate Ganache
  • 100mL cream
  • 150g 70% dark cooking chocolate, chopped
  • 1 tbs glucose syrup
Instructions
Conventional Method
  1. Preheat oven to 180c.
  2. Combine butter and chocolate in heatproof bowl and melt in the microwave. Stir to combine.
  3. Add sugar, eggs, flour, desiccated coconut, raw cacao and stir to combine.
  4. Add pitted cherries and stir to combine.
  5. Pour mix into a lined rectangular baking tray and bake for 25-30 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
  6. Make chocolate ganache by heating cream in a saucepan until just simmering. Remove from heat, add chocolate and glucose syrup and sit for 5 min. Stir until just combined to avoid splitting.
  7. Spread ganache on slice and decorate with shredded coconut.
Thermomix Method
  1. Preheat oven to 180c.
  2. Combine butter and chocolate in mixing bowl and melt 50C/5 min/speed 2.
  3. Add sugar, eggs, flour, desiccated coconut, raw cacao and mix speed 5/10 sec.
  4. Add pitted cherries. Mix 10 sec/speed 3.
  5. Pour mix into a lined rectangular baking tray and bake for 25-30 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
  6. Make chocolate ganache by mixing cream, chocolate and glucose syrup 50C/speed 3/ 3 min. Scrape down sides halfway through mixing.
  7. Spread ganache on slice and decorate with shredded coconut.
Recipe by Helen Tzouganatos at https://helentzouganatos.com/chocolate-cherry-ripe-slice-gluten-free-recipe/