Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, black forest cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Black Forest Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Black Forest Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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. Butter the parchment and dust the bottoms and. In a microwave, melt chocolate; stir until smooth.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook black forest cake using 21 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:

1. Get For the cake
2. Make ready 265 g plain flour
3. Get 400 g caster sugar
4. Make ready 65 g unsweetened cocoa powder
5. Get 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
6. Take 3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
7. Prepare 3/4 teaspoon salt
8. Take 3 eggs
9. Take 240 ml milk
10. Take 120 ml vegetable oil
11. Make ready 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
12. Take For the cherry filling
13. Take 3 (425 g) tins black cherries in syrup
14. Take 200 g caster sugar
15. Take 4 tablespoons cornflour
16. Make ready 120 ml Kirsch
17. Take For the cream icing
18. Prepare 500 ml whipping cream
19. Get 425 g icing sugar
20. Make ready 250 gm unsalted butter for chocolate icing
21. Prepare Cocoa powder for chocolate icing

Kirsch is a clear, colorless fruit liquor made from sour cherries and is what gives Black Forest Cake its distinct cherry flavor (in addition to the cherries in the filling). 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.

Instructions to make Black Forest Cake:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

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. It is explained in further detail by. Black forest cake is traditionally made with sponge cake, and that means it's a non-yeasted cake, using beaten eggs as a leavening agent.

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