Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, black forest cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Black Forest Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Black Forest Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have black forest cake using 21 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:
- Get For the cake
- Take 265 g plain flour
- Make ready 400 g caster sugar
- Prepare 65 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Take 3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Make ready 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Take 3 eggs
- Prepare 240 ml milk
- Make ready 120 ml vegetable oil
- Take 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Prepare For the cherry filling
- Prepare 3 (425 g) tins black cherries in syrup
- Make ready 200 g caster sugar
- Take 4 tablespoons cornflour
- Take 120 ml Kirsch
- Make ready For the cream icing
- Make ready 500 ml whipping cream
- Prepare 425 g icing sugar
- Take 250 gm unsalted butter for chocolate icing
- Take 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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