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Black Forest gâteau or Black Forest cake (American English) is a chocolate sponge cake with a rich cherry filling based on the German dessert Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. This black forest cake is an adult cake as it has kirsch (a cherry liqueur) and isn't overly sweet. The kirsch is not overpowering but you can tell it's there.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook black forest cake using 21 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
- Prepare For the cake
- Make ready 265 g plain flour
- Prepare 400 g caster sugar
- Make ready 65 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- Take 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Make ready 3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Take 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Get 240 ml milk
- Take 120 ml vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Get For the cherry filling
- Get 3 (425 g) tins black cherries in syrup
- Get 200 g caster sugar
- Prepare 4 tablespoons cornflour
- Make ready 120 ml Kirsch
- Prepare For the cream icing
- Make ready 500 ml whipping cream
- Prepare 425 g icing sugar
- Make ready 250 gm unsalted butter for chocolate icing
- Make ready Cocoa powder for chocolate icing
Black Forest Cake is a traditional German dessert made with chocolate sponge cake layers filled with whipped cream and cherries. This delicious cake recipe is completely made from scratch and perfect. Black Forest Cake is one rich and decadent cake. Homemade cake, sour cherry filling, and topped with whipped cream.
Instructions to make Black Forest Cake:
- Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease and flour two 23cm (9 in) round cake tins; cover bottoms with baking parchment. - In a large bowl, combine flour, 400g sugar, cocoa, baking powder, bicarb and salt. Add eggs, milk, oil; beat until well blended. Pour cake mixture into prepared tins.
- Bake for 35 minutes or until cooked. Remove and cool completely. - To make the cherry filling: Drain cherries, reserving 125ml juice. Combine reserved juice, cherries, 200g sugar and cornflour in a 2 litre saucepan. Cook over low heat until thickened, stirring constantly. Cool before using.
- To make the icing: Combine whipping cream and icing sugar in a chilled bowl. Beat with an electric mixer at high speed until stiff peaks form. - Reserve 1/4 of the whipped cream icing for decorating cake; set aside.
- To assemble: Place one cake layer on cake plate. Pour the Kirsch through out the layers. Spread with whipped cream icing, then top with 180ml cherry topping. Top with second cake layer. Ice side of cake with chocolate butter icing. Spoon reserved icing into pastry bag fitted with star tip. Pipe around top and bottom edges of cake. Spoon remaining cherry topping onto top of cake.
Find black forest cake stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. Black Forest Cake (Black Forest Gateau if you're British) comes to us from Germany, a country that is so serious about Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (Black Forest Cherry-Torte) that they actually have. It is frosted with whipped cream and covered with chocolate shavings and a few cherries for. German Black Forest cake is a rich, luscious chocolate torte that originated from the Black Forest region in Germany. Traditionally, the cake is made with layers of chocolate cake, whipped cream, and.
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