Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, black forest cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. Although the origins of Black Forest cake are a bit fuzzy, many historians believe it originated in the Black Forest region of Germany, a large mountain range on the southwest side of the country.
Black Forest Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Black Forest Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have black forest cake using 21 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
- Get For the cake
- Make ready 265 g plain flour
- Get 400 g caster sugar
- Make ready 65 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- Take 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Make ready 3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Take 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 3 eggs
- Make ready 240 ml milk
- Make ready 120 ml vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Prepare For the cherry filling
- Take 3 (425 g) tins black cherries in syrup
- Take 200 g caster sugar
- Take 4 tablespoons cornflour
- Take 120 ml Kirsch
- Take For the cream icing
- Get 500 ml whipping cream
- Get 425 g icing sugar
- Get 250 gm unsalted butter for chocolate icing
- Prepare Cocoa powder for chocolate icing
Being born in Germany this cake was always one of my favorite desserts! It is served at every special family occasion and always a hit! Ingredients and How to Make Black Forest Cake. The syrups makes the cake ultra moist - my favorite part of.
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.
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. Sift the dry cake ingredients together. Black forest cake is traditionally finished with chocolate shavings, but I took it a step further and opted for chocolate ganache.
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