Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, black forest cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Black Forest Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Black Forest Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Add sifted flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla extract and buttermilk, and mix until the batter is smooth. A wooden pick inserted in center should come out with just a few moist crumbs on it. A classic recipe for everyone's kitschy favourite - Black Forest Gateau! This may seem like a chore to make, but the end result is well worth it.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to 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:
- Make ready For the cake
- Make ready 265 g plain flour
- Take 400 g caster sugar
- Make ready 65 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Prepare 3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Get 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 3 eggs
- Prepare 240 ml milk
- Prepare 120 ml vegetable oil
- Take 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Prepare For the cherry filling
- Take 3 (425 g) tins black cherries in syrup
- Prepare 200 g caster sugar
- Get 4 tablespoons cornflour
- Make ready 120 ml Kirsch
- Get For the cream icing
- Take 500 ml whipping cream
- Get 425 g icing sugar
- Make ready 250 gm unsalted butter for chocolate icing
- Get Cocoa powder for chocolate icing
Where did black forest cake come from It comes from Germany where it is known as Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. Chocolate sponge is layered with whipped cream and cherry filling. Try Delia's foolproof Black Forest roulade or the Hairy Bikers' easy. Tips for this Black Forest Cake: You can leave the cherry liqueur out (though it is traditional) or use a non-alcoholic version.
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; 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.
Try Delia's foolproof Black Forest roulade or the Hairy Bikers' easy. Tips for this Black Forest Cake: You can leave the cherry liqueur out (though it is traditional) or use a non-alcoholic version. You can use maraschino cherries or use cherry pie filling instead of fresh cherries. When making the whipped cream frosting, make sure everything is chilled, as the cream will whip up better. Black Forest gâteau or Black Forest cake (American English) is a chocolate sponge cake with a rich cherry filling based on the German dessert Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (pronounced [ˈʃvaʁt͡svɛldɐ ˈkɪʁʃˌtɔʁtə]), literally "Black Forest Cherry-torte".
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