Hazelnut-Chocolate-Cherry Cake #Dairyfree #Glutenfree

This year for her birthday, Alena requested a chocolate cake with something else.  Plain chocolate cake seemed to boring - all of us like nuts, and cherries so this is perfect.  Oh, and did you that Oregon is the biggest producer of hazelnuts in the US?  Yup,  so maybe we should name this cake the Oregon-Chocolate-Cherry Cake...;)


Hazelnut-Chocolate-Cherry Cake -
Jar of Morello Cherries {Trader Joe's} - drained well; or  fresh/frozen cherries
4 eggs
10 Tbl Earth Balance {150 gr}
app. 3/4 C Sugar {150 gr}
3-1/2 oz chocolate {100 gr - ground, or chips - be sure that chocolate is dairy free}
7 oz hazelnuts, ground {200 gr}
*Preheat oven to 350F
1. Separate egg yolk and egg whites;
2. Whisk egg whites until firm
3. In a separate bowl cream Earth Balance with sugar; when well blended add
4. chocolate, and hazelnuts - blend well
5. carefully add the firm egg whites
6. grease a baking pan - pour the dough into the pan and top with the cherries
7. Bake for about 60 minutes, and leave in oven for another 10 minutes after baking

Enjoy!








adapted from http://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/1449941249890405/Kirsch-Nuss-Kuchen.html