How to Make Perfect Black Forest Cake

Black Forest Cake. 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. Black forest cake, which originated in the Black Forest region of Germany, is typically made with a light chocolate sponge cake, soaked with cherry syrup and cherry brandy (Kirsch), then layered with whipped cream and cherries This version swaps the chocolate sponge for a denser, fudgier chocolate cake to delicious effect But slicing a rich chocolate cake into four thin layers can be a bit tricky Black Forest Cake.

The syrups makes the cake ultra moist - my favorite part of. Black Forest Cake is a traditional German dessert made with chocolate sponge cake layers filled with whipped cream and cherries. This delicious cake recipe is completely made from scratch and perfect for special occasions! You can have Black Forest Cake using 18 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Black Forest Cake

1. Prepare of Sponge cake (15cm diameter).
2. You need of eggs.
3. You need of sugar.
4. You need of milk.
5. Prepare of self-rising cake flour.
6. Prepare of cacao powder.
7. You need of melted butter.
8. Prepare of Syrup.
9. You need of water.
10. It's of sugar.
11. It's of Kirsch (cherry liquor).
12. Prepare of Whipped cream.
13. Prepare of heavy cream.
14. You need of sugar.
15. You need of Kirsch (cherry liquor).
16. Prepare of Toppings.
17. You need of sour cherries.
18. Prepare of chocolate curls.

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! Sift the dry cake ingredients together. It is explained in further detail by.

Black Forest Cake instructions

1. BAKE THE SPONGE CAKE: Line the cake mold with baking paper. Do it now, so the foamed batter for the sponge cake can go straight into the heated oven once it's prepared..
2. Preheat the oven at 180°C, bottom heating..
3. Whip the whole eggs and the sugar in a bowl, first with a whisk. When the ingredients are mixed, place the bowl in water of about 40°C, to fasten the foaming, continue whipping manually for a few minutes..
4. Remove the warm water, and continue whipping with the electric hand mixer on increasing speed, bringing lots of air in the mix to form the foam. Keep foaming until the batter is stiff enough so marks in the batter don't disappear easily..
5. The result of baking may be changed depending on each oven at home. The temperature and the baking time in this recipe is only a guide. Check the cake for doneness by inserting a toothpick into the baking cake's center and checking for wet batter or crumbs that stick to the toothpick. If you see crumbs or batter, assume the cake isn't done yet..
6. Gently pour in the milk over a spatula, and minimally mix it into the batter..
7. Sift the powder ingredients (cake flour and cacao powder) and gently add them in with the spatula, all in one go..
8. Pour the batter into the lined baking mold, shake it a bit, drop it a few times from a few centimeters on the table.
9. Add a little of the batter to the melted butter, and mix. Return this mix to the bowl with the batter, and gently mix it in with the spatula, about 15 times..
10. Put the mold in the preheated oven, and turn the heat down to 170°C. Bake 40 minutes for a 🎂🎂 15 cm diameter cake. Conversion guide for different cake diameters: 🎂12 cm: ingredients x0.66~0.7 & baking time x0.8~0.9; 🎂🎂🎂18 cm: ingredients x1.5 & baking time x1.25; 🎂🎂🎂🎂 21 cm: ingredients x2 & baking time x1.5.
11. Take the cake out of the oven and let it cool down..
12. MAKE THE WHIPPED CREAM..
13. Remove the baking paper from all sides (including bottom) of the sponge cake before cutting it into 3 slices of equal thickness..
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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. This version of Black Forest cake gets you an easy, delicious, and moist cake by using cherry pie filling and devil's food cake mix. 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.