text: Not for the faint of heart but this will definitely melt your heart!
  2 sticks butter
  12 ounces dark chocolate chips or chopped dark chocolate bar
  2 ½ cups brown sugar (or sugar of your choice like date sugar.)
  7 large eggs
  1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  ½ teaspoon almond extract
  1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour (or use nut flour to make gluten free!)
  1 teaspoon Salt
  2 ½ cups chopped walnuts
  - Preheat oven to 350º
  - Coat 9 X 12” pan with nonstick spray, butter or oil.
  - Melt butter & choc together over medium-low heat, remove from heat.
  - Stir in sugar, whisk in eggs, then vanilla, flour and salt. Stir in nuts.
  - Bake until top is crisp and toothpick comes out w/ wet crumbs attached, approx 45 minutes.
  - Let rest 15-20 minutes. Scoop into bowls and top with some of cherry cream and a whole cherry.
  For Cherry Cream:
  1 pint fresh cherries
  1 ½ cups whipping cream
  2/3 cup powdered sugar (less if using sweet cherries)
  ½ cup sour cream
  ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
  - Chill a stainless mixing bowl and the beaters from a handheld mixer (set in refrigerator or freezer for 15-20 min.)
  - Prepare cherries: remove stems, wash, halve and remove pit. Cut each half in half again (so that each cherry is quartered.) Place in a bowl and set aside.
  - Whip cream with a mixer until stiffened, beat in sugar, sour cream, vanilla and any juice from cherry bowl. Stir in cherries. Can be made several hours ahead. Cover and keep chilled.