Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, black forest cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Black Forest Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Black Forest Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must 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:
- Make ready For the cake
- Get 265 g plain flour
- Get 400 g caster sugar
- Prepare 65 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Take 3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Prepare 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Make ready 240 ml milk
- Prepare 120 ml vegetable oil
- Get 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Get 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
- Get For the cream icing
- Prepare 500 ml whipping cream
- Prepare 425 g icing sugar
- Take 250 gm unsalted butter for chocolate icing
- Get 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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