Blood cake with cherries

Method 

Cook the frozen cherries in a pot with three tablespoons of water for 5 minutes. Strain the cherries and let them cool. Stir 100 g of powdered sugar into the cherry juice and set it aside.

Whisk together the butter, sugar, vanilla sugar, cinnamon, and orange zest for at least 10 minutes until the mixture is white and fluffy.

Crack the eggs into a bowl and mix in the blood. Gradually stir the egg and blood mixture into the butter mixture.

Sift the flour and baking powder into the mixture, then fold the cherries.

Divide the batter into six greased muffin moulds and bake for 15 minutes at 170°C in a preheated oven.

While still warm, poke deep holes in the cakes with a skewer. Pour the cherry syrup over the cakes so they absorb it. Then, let the cakes cool in the moulds.

Serve the cakes with vanilla ice cream.

A collaboration between Matkovin, Visit Faroe Islands and Búnaðargrunnurin.