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Chocolate Cherry Cake. Cream butter until light and foamy, add sugar, and eggs, one at a time, until creamy and smooth. Mix flour, ground hazelnuts, baking powder and cinnamon; add to butter mixture alternating with milk. Preheat oven to 350F; grease a spring form 10 or 11" in dia. and sprinkle evenly with flour. Chop chocolate. Fold chocolate and one half of the cherries into the dough. Fill spring form, level top of dough with spatula. Bake 20 minutes. Remove from oven and distribute remaining half of cherries on top of cake. Return to oven and bake a further 40-50 minutes. Knife inserted into cake should come out clean. If necessary bake another 5 -10 minutes. Cool on rack. When fully cooled, loosen cake by going around rim of spring form. Serve sprinkled with confectioners sugar.