Black Forest Cake is one of the first cakes I learnt after getting married . I remember we didn’t have an oven and our neighbors had a round electric oven . I made the batter and went to their house to bake . Those ovens were portable , but yet I had gone to bake . And this was 40 years back ! Later of course we bought an oven and I used to bake cakes for the kids birthday parties .
With time everything changes . Now I have a huge oven and my friends come over to bake as they can bake loads at one go , but no more kids birthday parties . Anyway this cake was baked for a friend and she loved it .
Black Forest cake is the English name for the German dessert Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. The Cake consists of several layers of chocolate sponge cake , though I just slit it into two and sandwiched with whipped cream and cherries. The cake is normally decorated with additional whipped cream, maraschino cherries, and chocolate shavings. I like to cook my cherries with some sugar ,syrup from cherries and cornflour for the filling , but I went with the traditional topping of whipped cream and chocolate shavings.
Black Forest Cake
Ingredients
1 chocolate cake recipe
Whipped cream
Cherry sauce
Cherries
Grated chocolate
Cherry Sauce
Tinned cherry
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp corn flour
Cherry sauce
Remove the pits from cherries and strain the juice from the tin .
Reserve about 1/4 cup and place the rest of the juice in a thick bottomed pan .
Add half the pitted cherries .
Add sugar.
Dissolve the corn flour in a bowl , you could use the juice of cherries .
Gradually add this conflour mixture to the cherry mix .
Stir continuously till the mixture turns thick and translucent.
Remove from fire .
Let it come to room temperature before using .
Assembling the Cake
Divide the cake into two .
Using a spoon or a spray bottle sprinkle the reserved cherry syrup on both sides of the cake .
Apply a layer of whipped cream .
Spread the cherry sauce.
Cover the cake with the second half .
Apply whipped cream on the top and decorate with grated chocolate and cherries .
Some other Eggless Chocolate Cakes that you might enjoy
Strawberry Cream filled Chocolate Cake
Lamingtons- Double Chocolate Treat
Chocolate Cake with Spotted Chocolate Collar
Black Forest Cake
Ingredients
- 1 chocolate cake recipe
- whipped cream
- Cherry sauce
- Cherries
- Grated chocolate
Cherry sauce
- Tinned Cherry
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp corn flour
Instructions
Cherry sauce
- Remove the pits from cherries and strain the juice from the tin .
- Reserve about 1/4 cup and place the rest of the juice in a thick bottomed pan .
- Add half the pitted cherries .
- Add sugar.
- Dissolve the corn flour in a bowl , you could use the juice of cherries .
- Gradually add this conflour mixture to the cherry mix .
- Stir continuously till the mixture turns thick and translucent.
- Remove from fire .
- Let it come to room temperature before using .
Assembling the Cake
- Divide the cake into two .
- Using a spoon or a spray bottle sprinkle the reserved cherry syrup on both sides of the cake .
- Apply a layer of whipped cream .
- Spread the cherry sauce.
- Cover the cake with the second half .
- Apply whipped cream on the top and decorate with grated chocolate and cherries .
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Wow wow, what a wonderful way to end the series Vaishali. I so enjoyed all your bakes and bookmarked many. It was a fun filled series!
Such a prettiest cake to finish bakeathon, simply loved all your fabulous bakes Vaishali and this cake is my all time favourite one,obviously my mouth is watering here.
How life changes with time! Black forest is always a loved cake, isn’t it? Love those cherries peaking in at the center…
Black forest cake is an age old cake , still it always remain everybody’s favorite. Your cake with cherries peeking out looks so droolworthy.
This is one of my absolute favorite cakes of all time. Yours looks soooo inviting.
LOVED all your bakes for the series Vaishali especially the healthy ones and the unique bakes.
oh wow I’ve barely eaten today and this is just making me even more hungry – looks so rich and decadent