Black Forest Cake

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook black forest cake using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
  1. Make ready 1 2⁄3 cup cake flour
  2. Get 2 eggs
  3. Prepare 4 oz kirsch (brandy)
  4. Take 12 oz buttermilk
  5. Prepare 16 oz heavy whipping cream
  6. Make ready 1 1⁄2 tsp baking soda
  7. Prepare 3 1⁄2 cup confectioner's sugar
  8. Take 1 oz semisweet baking chocolate
  9. Take 4 oz shortening
  10. Prepare 1⁄2 tsp vanilla extract
  11. Make ready 1 pinch salt
  12. Prepare 8 oz butter
  13. Make ready 2⁄3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  14. Make ready 3 tsp kirsch
  15. Take 1 tsp salt
  16. Make ready 1 tsp coffee (very strong)
  17. Take 14 oz sweet cherries in heavy syrup, drained
  18. Take 12 oz sugar
  19. Take 1 tsp vanilla extract

Sift the dry cake ingredients together. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well. Black Forest Cake or Black Forest Gateau is a chocolate sponge cake sandwiched with a rich cherry filling and whipped cream. It is usually decorated with more whipped cream, chocolate shavings, and whole cherries.

Instructions to make Black Forest Cake:
  1. In a mixing bowl, combine cake flour, baking soda, cocoa and one teaspoon salt through a sieve, mix well and keep it aside.
  2. Cream shortening in a medium-sized mixing bowl and add sugar to it. Stir continuously till the mixture becomes light and fluffy. Add eggs along with the vanilla essence into it and mix thoroughly.
  3. Add the above mixture into the flour mixture, along with 8 ounces of buttermilk (alternatively). Mix well till all the ingredients are blended completely.
  4. Take two 8 inch round pans and place parchment circles at the surfaces and pour the prepared cake mixture into it. Bake both the pans in a 350°F preheated oven for at least 35-40 minutes or till it is completely done. Do the toothpick test to check whether the cake is baked fully before taking it out.
  5. Let the baked cakes cool completely on a wire rack. Once this is done, slice the cakes from the center horizontally. Pour 1 ounce kirsch each on the cut side of both the cakes and set aside.
  6. Beat the butter in another bowl till it becomes light and fluffy. Add a pinch of salt, coffee, remaining buttermilk, confectioners sugar and mix well.
  7. Take one layer of the cake on a plate and spread 1⁄3 of the filling on it evenly. Place 1⁄3 of the cherries on top of it and place another layer of cake above it and repeat the same procedure.
  8. Once all the layers have been filled, make a mixture with 3 teaspoons kirsch and 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla and pour over the cake. Prepare icing by whisking cream in a bowl and adding it to the uppermost layer. To decorate the cake, sprinkle chocolate shavings on top of the cake.

Black Forest Cake or Black Forest Gateau is a chocolate sponge cake sandwiched with a rich cherry filling and whipped cream. It is usually decorated with more whipped cream, chocolate shavings, and whole cherries. Where did black forest cake come from It comes from Germany where it is known as Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. It is explained in further detail by. A slice of homemade Black Forest cake is an immensely satisfying dessert — especially for chocolate-lovers.

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