Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, black forest cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Black Forest Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Black Forest Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have black forest cake using 21 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
- Take For the cake
- Prepare 265 g plain flour
- Prepare 400 g caster sugar
- Get 65 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Make ready 3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Take 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Make ready 240 ml milk
- Take 120 ml vegetable oil
- Get 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Get For the cherry filling
- Make ready 3 (425 g) tins black cherries in syrup
- Prepare 200 g caster sugar
- Prepare 4 tablespoons cornflour
- Prepare 120 ml Kirsch
- Get For the cream icing
- Take 500 ml whipping cream
- Take 425 g icing sugar
- Make ready 250 gm unsalted butter for chocolate icing
- Make ready Cocoa powder for chocolate icing
Steps 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.
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