Cake # 65 Chocolate Cherry Gateau

After an incredibly long work week, we celebrated this end of this week and the end of the Speech and Debate team's winning season with - well what other than cake? My students have been bugging me to let them try my cakes that they hear about. Because at school we have a policy about not bringing homemade food, I have never brought in my cakes for them to try. However, because Wednesday night, and I mean I did not get home until 10:00pm, gotta love 15 hour work days when you only get paid for 6 1/2 hours, was our final tournament for Speech and Debate, my co-coach and I decided that we should celebrate on Friday at the end of the school day. So, I thought this would be a good time to bring in a homemade cake. So Thursday night I made my cake of the week, a Chocolate Cherry Gateau. Gateau is a fancy French word implying a cake with a lot of cream, or icing, and it is often made with almond flour -as my cake was made with. Besides almond flour, the ingredients were eggs, sugar,vanilla, butter, baking soda, heavy whipping cream, unsweetened cocoa, shredded chocolate, powdered sugar, and cherries.

This is the first cake that I have made that Ted did not even get to have a slice - the kids ate the entire two layer cake in less than fifteen minutes! It is a good thing that neither Ted nor I like to eat cherries, because not only was there no cake left for us, but there was none for poor Evie either, though I am sure she will survive with one week without cake.

Here is my cake:

Here is the book's:

So you will notice that my cake uses maraschino cherries and the book's cake calls for real cherries - because real cherries are not in season, I could not find any at the store and had to make it work.

Next Saturday Ted may be going to a hockey game with his friend- so I will have to figure out what kind of cake to make that he can take along!