Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, black forest cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Black Forest Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Black Forest Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
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 with whipped cream and cherries This version swaps the chocolate sponge for a denser, fudgier chocolate cake to delicious effect But slicing a rich chocolate cake into four thin layers can be a bit tricky Directions. In a microwave, melt chocolate; stir until smooth. Although the origins of Black Forest cake are a bit fuzzy, many historians believe it originated in the Black Forest region of Germany, a large mountain range on the southwest side of the country.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have black forest cake using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
- Make ready <Chocolate Cake Ingredients>
- Take 1 & 1/3 cups Self Raising Flour
- Get 1 teaspoon BC Soda
- Prepare 1/3 cup Cocoa Powder
- Prepare 1 cup Sugar
- Make ready 1 cup Butter Milk
- Take 125 g Butter *melted
- Make ready 2 Eggs
- Get 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- Get <Filling & Decoration>
- Get 600-800 g Pitted Dark Cherries (Tinned OR Jarred)
- Get 400-600 ml Thickened Cream
- Get 2 tablespoons Kirsch
- Take Dark Chocolate *shaved OR grated
Ingredients and How to Make Black Forest Cake. The syrups makes the cake ultra moist - my favorite part of. 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.
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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