Ingredients

• 3.5 cups - self-raising flour
• 250 g - butter or margarine
• 2 cups - castor sugar
• 2 cups - yogurt
• 4 - eggs
• 200 g - cherries
• 2 tsp - soda bicarb
• 1 cup - cocoa
• To decorate: a few glace cherries and some whipped cream

How to Make Choco-Cherry Cake

• Sieve the flour, sugar, cocoa and soda bicarbonate. Cut the cherries and mix into the sieved ingredients.
• Melt butter in a heavy-bottomed pan. Cool slightly before adding the eggs and yogurt.
• Stir the butter mixture into the flour and combine well until smooth.
• Spoon into a greased tin and bake at 180 degrees C for an hour.
• Cool in the tin for a while before turning out onto a wire rack for further cooling.
• Decorate with whipped cream and cherries.