Rowan’s Chocolate & Cherry tribute to Marie Antoinette recipe - The Great British Bake Off

Ingredients

• 130g unsalted butter
• 4 large eggs
• 250g caster sugar
• 210g self-raising flour
• 40g cocoa powder
• Pinch of salt
• 80g dried morello cherries, soaked for 2–3 hours in 2 tbsp kirsch
• 175g double cream
• 200g 70% dark chocolate, chopped
• 100g caster sugar
• 250g mascarpone
• 1 tsp coffee extract
• 1 tbsp coffee liqueur
• 300ml double cream
• 1 tbsp icing sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla paste
• 25g 70% dark chocolate
• 11 cherries with stems