Sour cherry and chocolate simnel cake with hazelnut marzipan recipe | delicious. magazine

Ingredients

• 120g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra to grease
• 100g caster sugar
• 300g dark brown muscovado sugar
• 135g (when drained) cherries in kirsch
• 100g full-fat Greek yogurt
• 4 large free-range eggs
• 320g self-raising flour
• 80g cocoa powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 200ml cherry juice drink (or pomegranate juice)
• 250g dried sour cherries
• For the marzipan
• 1 large egg
• 75g caster sugar
• 80g icing sugar
• 15g liquid glucose (from the baking section in supermarkets)
• 1 tbsp brandy, rum or vodka
• 200g blanched hazelnuts, finely ground in a food processor
• For the ganache
• 100g Bournville chocolate
• 100ml double cream
• 50g Nutella Cocoa powder for dusting
• you’ll also need…
• 23cm x 8-10cm deep cake tin