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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.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have black forest cake using 21 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
- Get For the cake
- Take 265 g plain flour
- Take 400 g caster sugar
- Get 65 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- Make ready 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Prepare 3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Make ready 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Get 3 eggs
- Prepare 240 ml milk
- Make ready 120 ml vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Take For the cherry filling
- Make ready 3 (425 g) tins black cherries in syrup
- Get 200 g caster sugar
- Take 4 tablespoons cornflour
- Get 120 ml Kirsch
- Make ready For the cream icing
- Prepare 500 ml whipping cream
- Prepare 425 g icing sugar
- Take 250 gm unsalted butter for chocolate icing
- Take Cocoa powder for chocolate icing
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.
Steps 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.
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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