Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, black forest cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Black Forest Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Black Forest Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook black forest cake using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
- Get cake flour
- Take eggs
- Make ready kirsch (brandy)
- Make ready buttermilk
- Get heavy whipping cream
- Get baking soda
- Prepare confectioner's sugar
- Make ready semisweet baking chocolate
- Make ready shortening
- Take vanilla extract
- Prepare salt
- Make ready butter
- Take unsweetened cocoa powder
- Get kirsch
- Get salt
- Make ready coffee (very strong)
- Make ready sweet cherries in heavy syrup, drained
- Get sugar
- Make ready vanilla extract
Steps to make Black Forest Cake:
- In a mixing bowl, combine cake flour, baking soda, cocoa and one teaspoon salt through a sieve, mix well and keep it aside.
- Cream shortening in a medium-sized mixing bowl and add sugar to it. Stir continuously till the mixture becomes light and fluffy. Add eggs along with the vanilla essence into it and mix thoroughly.
- Add the above mixture into the flour mixture, along with 8 ounces of buttermilk (alternatively). Mix well till all the ingredients are blended completely.
- Take two 8 inch round pans and place parchment circles at the surfaces and pour the prepared cake mixture into it. Bake both the pans in a 350°F preheated oven for at least 35-40 minutes or till it is completely done. Do the toothpick test to check whether the cake is baked fully before taking it out.
- Let the baked cakes cool completely on a wire rack. Once this is done, slice the cakes from the center horizontally. Pour 1 ounce kirsch each on the cut side of both the cakes and set aside.
- Beat the butter in another bowl till it becomes light and fluffy. Add a pinch of salt, coffee, remaining buttermilk, confectioners sugar and mix well.
- Take one layer of the cake on a plate and spread 1/3 of the filling on it evenly. Place 1/3 of the cherries on top of it and place another layer of cake above it and repeat the same procedure.
- Once all the layers have been filled, make a mixture with 3 teaspoons kirsch and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and pour over the cake. Prepare icing by whisking cream in a bowl and adding it to the uppermost layer. To decorate the cake, sprinkle chocolate shavings on top of the cake.
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