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Hairy Bikers' Black Forest cake
Fruit and vegetables
2 x 80g/2¾oz packs of sweetened dried sour
cherries
fresh
cherries
, to decorate
Tins, packets and jars
340g/11¾oz jar of morello cherry
jam
Cooking ingredients
225g/8oz
caster sugar
160g/5½oz
self-raising flour
65g/2¼oz
cocoa powder
½ tsp
baking powder
Biscuits, snacks and sweets
50g/2oz
dark chocolate
, coarsely grated
Dairy, eggs and chilled
225g/8oz
butter
, softened, plus extra for greasing
4 medium
eggs
500ml/18fl oz
double cream
Other
2–3 tbsp
Kirsch
100ml/3½fl oz
cherry brandy
(ideally morello
cherry brandy
)
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