Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, black forest cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Black Forest Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Black Forest Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Black forest cake, which originated in the Black Forest region of Germany, is typically made with a light chocolate sponge cake, soaked with cherry syrup and cherry brandy (Kirsch), then layered. In a microwave, melt chocolate; stir until smooth. A slice of homemade Black Forest cake is an immensely satisfying dessert — especially for chocolate-lovers.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have black forest cake using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
- Take <Chocolate Cake Ingredients>
- Make ready 1 & 1/3 cups Self Raising Flour
- Prepare 1 teaspoon BC Soda
- Prepare 1/3 cup Cocoa Powder
- Prepare 1 cup Sugar
- Make ready 1 cup Butter Milk
- Make ready 125 g Butter *melted
- Prepare 2 Eggs
- Take 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- Take <Filling & Decoration>
- Take 600-800 g Pitted Dark Cherries (Tinned OR Jarred)
- Take 400-600 ml Thickened Cream
- Get 2 tablespoons Kirsch
- Prepare Dark Chocolate *shaved OR grated
Cherry syrup to soak the cake layers, and cherries to add between the layers. Black Forest cakes typically have brandy in the cherry filling. If crumbs get in the frosting while frosting the cake, scrape off your icing spatula into a separate bowl so as not to get crumbs on the frosted cake. A turntable is helpful when decorating a cake.
Steps to make Black Forest Cake:
- Bake a chocolate cake 18cm OR 20cm in diameter. My ‘Super Easy Chocolate Cake’ recipe can be found here. (http://www.hirokoliston.com/super-easy-chocolate-cake/) Turn onto a wire rack to cool completely, then cut horizontally into 2 or 3 layers using a large serrated knife.
- Drain the pitted cherries, reserving 1/4 cup of the juice. Reserve 12 good-looking cherries for decoration.
- Use an electric beater or a whisk to beat cream in a large bowl until firm peaks form. *Note: You may wish to add 1 tablespoon Caster Sugar to the cream before beating. I always add NO sugar to the cream.
- Mix reserved cherry juice and Kirsch in a small bowl.
- Place 1st layer of cake on a serving plate and drizzle over the kirsch mixture. Spread the cream and arrange the cherries evenly. Repeat if you have three layers. Then finish with the top layer of the cake.
- Spread some cream over the top (and side of the cake if you wish). Decorate the cake with the remaining cream, cherries and shaved dark chocolate.
Place one cake layer on a serving plate. Frost top and sides of cake with remaining whipped cream, reserving some to pipe decorations, if desired. Spoon remaining filling onto top of cake. Authentic Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwald Kirsch Kuchen) Recipe by BK GeeGee. This cake isn't meant to be very sweet but is rather a dessert for adults with deep rich flavours and enough alcohol to make your head spin!
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