Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, black forest cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The best black forest cake recipe I've tried, and I've tried a lot. The cake baked up beautifully, the cherries were perfect, and the whole thing just came together wonderfully. Butter the parchment and dust the bottoms and. "Black Forest" usually describes desserts made with chocolate, cherries and whipped cream. If you start with a chilled bowl, the cream will whip up much faster.
Black Forest Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Black Forest Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook black forest cake using 18 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
- Get Sponge cake (15cm diameter)
- Get 3 eggs
- Prepare 90 g sugar
- Get 25 g milk
- Make ready 70 g self-rising cake flour
- Prepare 20 g cacao powder
- Get 25 g melted butter
- Get Syrup
- Get 50 g water
- Prepare 30 g sugar
- Prepare 15 g Kirsch (cherry liquor)
- Get Whipped cream
- Prepare 200 g heavy cream
- Get 20 g sugar
- Make ready 15 g Kirsch (cherry liquor)
- Prepare Toppings
- Make ready 15 g sour cherries
- Prepare chocolate curls
Sift the dry cake ingredients together. Black Forest Cake or Black Forest Gateau is a chocolate sponge cake sandwiched with a rich cherry filling and whipped cream. It is usually decorated with more whipped cream, chocolate shavings, and whole cherries. Where did black forest cake come from It comes from Germany where it is known as Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte.
Instructions to make Black Forest Cake:
- BAKE THE SPONGE CAKE: Line the cake mold with baking paper. Do it now, so the foamed batter for the sponge cake can go straight into the heated oven once it's prepared.
- Preheat the oven at 180°C, bottom heating.
- Whip the whole eggs and the sugar in a bowl, first with a whisk. When the ingredients are mixed, place the bowl in water of about 40°C, to fasten the foaming, continue whipping manually for a few minutes.
- Remove the warm water, and continue whipping with the electric hand mixer on increasing speed, bringing lots of air in the mix to form the foam. Keep foaming until the batter is stiff enough so marks in the batter don't disappear easily.
- The result of baking may be changed depending on each oven at home. The temperature and the baking time in this recipe is only a guide. Check the cake for doneness by inserting a toothpick into the baking cake's center and checking for wet batter or crumbs that stick to the toothpick. If you see crumbs or batter, assume the cake isn't done yet.
- Gently pour in the milk over a spatula, and minimally mix it into the batter.
- Sift the powder ingredients (cake flour and cacao powder) and gently add them in with the spatula, all in one go.
- Pour the batter into the lined baking mold, shake it a bit, drop it a few times from a few centimeters on the table
- Add a little of the batter to the melted butter, and mix. Return this mix to the bowl with the batter, and gently mix it in with the spatula, about 15 times.
- Put the mold in the preheated oven, and turn the heat down to 170°C. Bake 40 minutes for a 🎂🎂 15 cm diameter cake. Conversion guide for different cake diameters: 🎂12 cm: ingredients x0.66~0.7 & baking time x0.8~0.9; 🎂🎂🎂18 cm: ingredients x1.5 & baking time x1.25; 🎂🎂🎂🎂 21 cm: ingredients x2 & baking time x1.5
- Take the cake out of the oven and let it cool down.
- MAKE THE WHIPPED CREAM.
- Remove the baking paper from all sides (including bottom) of the sponge cake before cutting it into 3 slices of equal thickness.
It is usually decorated with more whipped cream, chocolate shavings, and whole cherries. Where did black forest cake come from It comes from Germany where it is known as Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. 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.
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