To complete the perfect holiday dessert spread, all you need is a cake with cream. For a bit of variety, try a version with a ...

Place the chocolate, butter, eggs and sugar into a bowl and mix together well. Add the flour, baking powder, cherries and cherry juice and fold together until smooth. Grease two mugs with butter ...

Spread the cherry compote over the base of the dish ... Add the vanilla extract, flour, baking powder, cocoa, salt, chopped chocolate and milk and continue whisking until you have a combined ...

Drizzle the sponge with 5–6 tbsp of the cherry syrup, until lightly soaked. Reserve 6 of the cherries for decoration and scatter the rest over the sponge. Pour the chocolate custard on top.