Cakes and Pastries Recipes - Black Forest Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 8:

• 1 1/8 lb/500 g cherries

• 3fl ox/90 ml Kirsch

• 4 oz/110 g butter

• 6 eggs

• 3 1/2 ox/100 g crystal sugar

• 2 2/3 oz/75 g almond powder

• 3 1/2 oz/100 g cocoa

• 6 1/ oz/180 g flour

• 1 packet of baking powder

• 1 packet 01 vanilla sugar

• 3/4 oz/20 g dark chocolate

• 1 dozen candied cherries

Chantilly cream:

• 1 1/4 cups (300ml) very cold cream

• 2 packets 01 vanilla sugar

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Method:

1. Soak the cherries in the Krirch for 2 hour.

2. Preheat the oven to 350F/180C. Melt 100g of butter without allowing it to brown.

3. Separate the egg whites from the yolks. Place the yolks in a large mixing bowl. Add the crystal sugar, melted butter, almond powder, cocoa, flour, yeast and vanilla sugar. Mix until smooth and set aside.

4. Whisk the egg whites to stiff peaks. Fold them gently into the batter, working with a spatula. Pour the batter into a cake pan. Bake for 30 minutes.

5. Allow the cake to cool for 1 hour before turning out. Cut the corpus horizontally into three layers. Sprinkles each layer with the left over Krisch and then cover both layers with cherries. Set aside.

6. Prepare the whipped cream: whisk the cream together with the sugar. Spread 2 layers covered with cherries with 20g of the whipped cream. Assemble the cake and cover with the remaining cream.

7. Make chocolate shaving (refer recipe). Decorate with candied cherries and chocolate shavings. Chill for 2 hours.