Steph's Black Forest Chocolate Cake recipe - The Great British Bake Off

Ingredients

• 200g unsalted butter
• 200g 56% dark chocolate
• 5g instant espresso powder
• 110g plain flour, sifted
• 110g self-raising flour, sifted
• 25g cocoa
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 200g light muscovado sugar
• 200g golden caster sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 100ml buttermilk
• 285g 56% dark chocolate
• 125ml double cream
• 220g unsalted butter
• 250g frozen destoned cherries, defrosted
• 125g jam sugar
• ¾ tbsp lemon juice
• 50g 56% dark chocolate
• 200ml double cream
• 1 tbsp icing sugar
• 1 tbsp kirsch
• 8 whole cherries, with stalks
• 1 sheet of edible gold leaf