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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 recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have black forest cake using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
- Get 12 Serves:
- Make ready 265 g plain flour
- Prepare 400 g caster sugar
- Get 65 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Prepare 3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Take 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Take 3 eggs
- Get 250 ml milk
- Prepare 120 ml vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Get 3 (425 g) tins black cherries
- Prepare 200 g caster sugar
- Make ready 4 tablespoons cornflour
- Take 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Prepare 750 ml whipping cream
- Get 5 tablespoons icing sugar
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:
- 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 and 1 tablespoon vanilla; beat until well blended. Pour cake mixture into prepared tins.
- Bake for 35 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into centre comes out clean. Cool layers in tins on wire racks for 10 minutes. Loosen edges, and remove to racks to cool completely.
- To make the cherry topping: 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. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cool before using.
- To make the whipped cream icing: Combine whipping cream and icing sugar in a chilled medium bowl. Beat with an electric mixer at high speed until stiff peaks form.
- With long serrated knife, split each cake layer horizontally in half. Break one split layer apart into crumbs; set aside. Reserve 1/4 of the whipped cream icing for decorating cake; set aside. Gently brush loose crumbs off top and side of each cake layer with pasty brush or hands.
- To assemble: Place one cake layer on cake plate. Spread with whipped cream icing, then top with 180ml cherry topping. Top with second cake layer; repeat layers of whipped cream icing and cherry topping. Top with third cake layer. Ice side of cake. Pat reserved crumbs onto icing on side of cake. 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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