Black forest cake
Black forest cake

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Black forest cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Black forest cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

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.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have black forest cake using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Black forest cake:
  1. Take For the chocolate cake
  2. Get 200 gm plain flour
  3. Prepare 50 gm cocoa powder
  4. Take 30 gm fine sugar
  5. Take 2 tsp baking powder
  6. Get 1 tsp baking soda/ sodium bicarbonate
  7. Make ready 1 tin sweetened condensed milk
  8. Take 150 gm butter
  9. Get 1 tbsp vanilla
  10. Get 250 ml water
  11. Prepare For the cherry syrup
  12. Take 175 ml water
  13. Make ready 1 cup cherries
  14. Make ready 4-5 tbsp sugar
  15. Prepare For the whipped cream
  16. Take 2-3 cups whipping cream
  17. Get for Garnishing
  18. Take as needed chocolate shavings
  19. Prepare as needed cherry

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:
  1. Begin by greasing and lining the bases of two 8” round cake tins with greaseproof paper/baking parchment/butter paper. Alternately use a deep 9” or 10” round pan and then cut the cake into layers. If you have only one tin then, you can bake twice using the same cake batter.
  2. In a mixing bowl, assemble 200 gm (1 1/2 cups) flour, 50 gm (1/4 cup) cocoa powder, 30 gm (4 tbsp) sugar, 2 tsp baking powder and 1 tsp baking soda, mix with a spoon and sieve once to make the mixture uniform. - Preheat the oven at about 150 c/300F.
  3. Add in the condensed milk, 150 gm melted butter, 1 tbsp vanilla and 250 ml (1 cup) water to the flour mixture. Beat with an electric hand mixer, stand mixer, whisk or spoon just until the mixture is uniform and smooth and there are no lumps. This shouldn’t take more than a minute with an electric hand mixer/beater. Be careful not to over beat as this tends to stiffen the batter which might lead to a less softer cake.
  4. Pour the batter into the prepared cake tins and bake for 25 to 30 or until a skewer or toothpick comes out clean. - After the cakes are done, allow them to rest in their tins for 3 to 4 minutes and then invert them on to a cooling rack.
  5. Place one half of the cake over a serving plate. Put some cherry syrup all over it. Spread the whipped cream, leaving 1/4” space at the borders. Place the strained cherries over it.
  6. Carefully place the other half of the cake and moisten it with the cherry syrup. With the help of a palette knife level both the cakes, by pressing the knife over the sides, rotating the cake at the same time. - Whip the remaining cream until stiff peaks form.
  7. Spread the whipped cream on top of the cake and cover it over the sides as well. With the help of a cone and an icing nozzle place stars or rosettes on the edges of the cake. To make it prettier, place a cherry on the top of each design.
  8. With the help of a vegetable peeler, peel a bar of chocolate to get chocolate curls. Place some chocolate curls in the centre of the cake. If the temperature is hot, then you can chill your chocolate and that will make it easier to shave off the chocolate. Place some mini chocolate curls on the sides of the cake as well. - Chill in the refrigerator for about 2 to 3 hours before slicing.

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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