Black Forest Cake
Black Forest Cake is a chocolate sponge cake with a cherry filling based on German cake Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte. This is a very delicious, moist chocolate sponge sandwiched with whipped cream and cherries
Ingredients
- Flour – 220 gms
- Sugar – 350 gms
- Cocoa powder – 65 gms (unsweetened)
- Baking soda – 2 tsp
- Baking powder – 1 tsp
- Salt – 1 tsp
- Eggs – 2 medium (at room temperature)
- Vegetable Oil – 120 ml
- Buttermilk – 120 ml
- Milk – 150 ml
- Vanilla essence – 2 tsp (For chocolate cake)
- Hot black coffee – 100 ml
- Fresh cherries (optional) – 250 gms (de-seeded and soaked in dark rum or cherry liquor.)
- Whipping cream – 500 ml
- Powdered sugar – 50 gms (finely powdered)
- Vanilla essence – 1 tsp (For whipped cream)
- Fresh cherries – 7 for garnish
- Dark chocolate – 200 gms (at room temperature) (for making chocolate curls)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees centigrade
- Grease and then line 9″ cake pan with parchment / butter paper
- Combine flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt in a bowl and set aside
- In a medium bowl, beat eggs, oil, milk, buttermilk and vanilla essence with hand mixer
- Incorporate dry ingredients into wet ingredients.
- Add hot coffee to above mixture
- Beat the batter until well combined
- Pour the batter into prepared cake pan
- Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes or until skewer / tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean
- While cake is getting baked, whip the cream until soft peaks are formed
- Add powdered sugar, vanilla essence and continue to whip until hard peaks are formed. Keep aside.
- Release the cake from pan and place it on wire rack. Allow to cool completely
- Once cake is cooled completely, using the cotton thread, cut the cake horizontally to form 3 layers
- Apply the liquid used to soak the cherries on all the three layers of cake using a brush
- Place a layer of cake on cake turntable
- Spread a thick layer of whipped cream evenly on the top of layer
- Spread half of the soaked cherries, if using on whipped cream
- Place second layer of cake,
- Spread a thick layer of whipped cream evenly on the top of layer
- Spread half of the soaked cherries, if using on whipped cream
- Place third layer of cake on top
- Spread a thick layer of whipped cream on top as well as sides of the cake
- Evenly spread the cream using palate knife
- Fill the piping bag with whipped cream and decorate the top of the cake 7 big swirls of the whipped cream.
- Top the cream swirls with fresh cherries
- Using a peeler, make chocolate curls
- Coat the sides as well as top of the cake with chocolate curls
- Keep the cake in fridge and serve it cold
