Chocolate, Cherry and Chestnut Roulade Recipe | olivemagazine

Chocolate, Cherry and Chestnut Roulade Recipe | olivemagazine

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This beautiful Christmas dessert uses the classic combination of chocolate and cherry but with a festive twist of a light chestnut cream

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Ingredients

  • sunflower oil for the tin
  • 175g 70% dark chocolate (we used Lindt cooking chocolate) broken into squares
  • 6 eggs
  • 175g golden caster sugar
  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder
  • icing sugar for dusting
  • 400g black cherries (fresh or frozen) pitted and chopped
  • 125g golden caster sugar
  • 1 1⁄2 tbsp cornflour
  • 1 lemon juiced
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
  • 40g golden caster sugar
  • 1-2 tbsp amaretto (optional)
  • 200ml double cream
  • 100g chestnut purée (we used Merchant Gourmet)
  • 8 maraschino cherries
  • 8 marron glacé chopped
  • 50g dark chocolate chilled

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