Black Forest Cake

Well to start up with I love cakes and my love for cake started when I was of the age of around 5 to 6 years, My Aunt was the one who use to bake the cake in our home. Her cake use to be very soft and delicious. Every alternate day I use to ask her to bake a cake. I use to wait patiently until she made the batter and baked it. She use to bake the cake with different flavors like banana cake, Fruit cake, nuts, orange etc…  When I grew up my love for cake was the same but with time I became crazy for Plum Cake, Chocolate Cake and Black Forest Cake. I started baking and I tried Plum Cake last Christmas, Chocolate Cake I bake every now and then as my hubby likes it and this is the first time I made Black forest Cake, but I am very happy with the outcome. In Chennai I use to have Black forest Cake from The Cake World at Anna Nagar and Primas Bakery. These were the two places where I use to be seen very often ;-). Well I dint plan to bake it but since all the items were available at home I thought why not give a try. The only difficulty that I faced was to get the cherries. After roaming around in Kuwait at last we found it out. Though it was the first time but I was very happy with the outcome as it came out very well… Well my hubby helped me out in decorating the cake and the photo courtesy goes definitely to him

Black Forest Gateau and Black Forest Cake are the English names for the German Dessert Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte literally known as Black Forest Cherry Torte. Black Forest cake was originated in Germany. Typically Black Forest consists of several layers of Chocolate Cake, with whipped Cream and cherries between each layer. Then the cake is decorated with additional whipped cream, maraschino cherries and chocolate shavings.

Well let’s get started with the ingredients:-

Cake

·        Self Raising Flour (Maida) – 2 cups

·        Egg – 4 eggs

·        Sugar - 1 ½ cups

·        Cocoa Powder – ½ cup

·        Butter (Unsalted) - ½ cup

·        Baking Soda 1 ½ tsp

·        Baking Powder 1 tsp

·        A pinch of Salt

·        Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp

·        Milk (Cold) – 1 cup

·        Coffee Powder – 1 ½ tbsps

For Filling

Cherries – 1 Tin

For Icing

Icing Sugar ½ cup

Whipping Cream – 1 pack (Almarai – Available in Kuwait)

For Decoration

Dark Chocolate – 50gms (Grated)

Preheat the Oven to 170C or 325F.

In a Bowl sieve the Self Raising Flour, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Salt, Cocoa Powder & Coffee Powder.

Place butter and sugar in a bowl and whisk it until light and fluffy. Then add 1 egg at a time and whisk it, slowly add the flour little by little.

Grease the pan and pour the batter into it. Now place the baking pan in the oven for 40 mins.

Once the Cake is done keep it on top of a wire rack to cool.

Use a large knife to Slice the Cake into 3 equal parts. Drain the Cherries and keep the syrup separately.

Whip the cream adding the sugar.

Take a slice of cake and pour the syrup of cherries and top it with pieces of cherries and then spread the whipped cream on top of it. Now place the Second slice of Cake and repeat the same process mentioned above. Once all the three slices are spread cover the entire cake using whipped cream. For decoration use the grated chocolate and cherries. Keep the Cake in refrigerator to set.

Serve it after an hour. J

I am sure you would love the outcome as I did. Will update my other recipes soon.