Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, black forest cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little 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 popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Black Forest Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook black forest cake using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
- Make ready 12 Serves:
- Take 265 g plain flour
- Prepare 400 g caster sugar
- Get 65 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- Take 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Get 3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Prepare 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Take 3 eggs
- Make ready 250 ml milk
- Make ready 120 ml vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Make ready 3 (425 g) tins black cherries
- Prepare 200 g caster sugar
- Prepare 4 tablespoons cornflour
- Take 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Prepare 750 ml whipping cream
- Make ready 5 tablespoons icing sugar
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 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.
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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