Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, black forest cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Black Forest Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Black Forest Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Black Forest gâteau (British English) or Black Forest cake (American English) is a chocolate sponge cake with a rich cherry filling based on the German dessert Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. To me, a Black Forest Cake is a party cake. What says "celebration" more than chocolate cake, Kirsch flavored Morello cherries, and loads of sweet whipped cream?
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have black forest cake using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
- Make ready 12 Serves:
- Prepare 265 g plain flour
- Take 400 g caster sugar
- Take 65 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- Take 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Get 3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Take 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Prepare 250 ml milk
- Get 120 ml vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Prepare 3 (425 g) tins black cherries
- Take 200 g caster sugar
- Get 4 tablespoons cornflour
- Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Make ready 750 ml whipping cream
- Prepare 5 tablespoons icing sugar
Made with three layers of light and fluffy chocolate cake that are topped with homemade cherry filling and fresh whipped cream. It is frosted with whipped cream and covered with chocolate shavings and a few cherries for. Black Forest Cake is one rich and decadent cake. Homemade cake, sour cherry filling, and topped with whipped cream.
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 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.
Everything about this rich black forest cake is mouthwatering. Black Forest House is a bakery specializing in fresh, quality cakes and pastries at reasonable prices. Serve the black forest cake chilled. So goes very well as a dessert or for celebrations like birthdays and anniversaries. Chocolate cake with cherries on top!
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