Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, black forest gateau. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Check Out our Selection & Order Now. Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders! 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 (pronounced [ˈʃvaʁt͡svɛldɐ ˈkɪʁʃˌtɔʁtə]), literally "Black Forest Cherry-torte".
Black Forest gateau is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Black Forest gateau is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook black forest gateau using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest gateau:
- Take 175 g salted butter
- Make ready 200 g dark chocolate bar
- Prepare 300 g plain flour
- Get 375 g golden caster sugar
- Make ready 25 g cocoa
- Take 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Prepare 2 medium eggs
- Make ready 200 g buttermilk or natural yoghurt
- Get To assemble
- Make ready 435 g can pitted cherries, 2 tablespoon juice reserved
- Make ready 100 g cherry jam
- Take 4 tablespoon kirsch (or more juice from a can of you want it to be non-alcoholic)
- Get 500 ml tub double cream
- Make ready 3 tablespoon icing sugar
- Make ready 1 small punnet small cherries (optional)
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. Black forest cake is traditionally finished with chocolate shavings, but I took it a step further and opted for chocolate ganache. Black Forest Cake was a staple when I was growing up (much to my dismay…read on).
Steps to make Black Forest gateau:
- Heat the oven to 180C. Grease and line the base of cake tins. Boil the kettle. Put the butter and 75g chocolate broken into chunks in a small pan and gently heat, stirring, until completely melted.
- Mix together the flour, sugar, cocoa and baking soda with a pinch of salt in a mixing bowl. Whisk the eggs and buttermilk or yogurt together. Scrape the melted chocolate mixture and egg mixture into the dry ingredients, add 100ml boiling water and whisk briefly with an electric whisk until the cake batter has no lumps.
- Divide the mixture between the tins and bake for 25 mins, swapping the tins round after 20 mins if they’re on different shelves. To test they're done, push in a skewer and check that it comes out clean.
- Prick the cakes a few times with a skewer. Mix together the 2 tbsp reserved cherry juice and the kirsch (or more juice) and drizzle over the cakes. Cool the cakes.
- Mix together the remaining drained cherries and jam. Tip 200ml of the cream into a small pan and heat until just below simmering point. Chop the remaining chocolate and put in a heatproof bowl, pour over the hot cream and stir until melted. Set aside until spreadable.
- When the cakes are cool whisk the remaining cream and the icing sugar together until softly whipped. Spread over two of the cakes, then spoon over the jammy cherries. Stack the cakes together. Spread the chocolate cream over the third cake and sit on top of the other cakes. Pile the fresh cherries in and around the cake and serve.
- Enjoy!
You know, the grocery store kind with the nuclear red maraschino cherries? My mom loooooved that cake and always got it for her birthday, and often at other times throughout the year as well. Layers of chocolate sponge, cream and boozy kirsch cherries provide the building blocks for this classic black forest gateau. We've decorated ours with chocolate shards, too, for a more striking aesthetic. Try serving it as an alternative Christmas dessert or as a dinner party show-stopper.
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