Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, black forest gateau. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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". Typically, Black Forest gateau consists of several layers of chocolate sponge cake sandwiched with whipped cream.
Black Forest gateau is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Black Forest gateau is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have black forest gateau using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest gateau:
- Get 175 g salted butter
- Take 200 g dark chocolate bar
- Get 300 g plain flour
- Prepare 375 g golden caster sugar
- Prepare 25 g cocoa
- Take 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Get 2 medium eggs
- Get 200 g buttermilk or natural yoghurt
- Take To assemble
- Take 435 g can pitted cherries, 2 tablespoon juice reserved
- Take 100 g cherry jam
- Make ready 4 tablespoon kirsch (or more juice from a can of you want it to be non-alcoholic)
- Prepare 500 ml tub double cream
- Get 3 tablespoon icing sugar
- Take 1 small punnet small cherries (optional)
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). You know, the grocery store kind with the nuclear red maraschino cherries?
Instructions 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!
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. Ingredients and How to Make Black Forest Cake.
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