Black Forrest Cake Recipe?

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Permalink Reply by Karen Marie on July 9, 2010 at 12:40am

I got this recipe whe I was going to baking school..it is really good:

Black Forest Cake
makes 2- 9" cakes

cake:
Pastry Flour 8.5 oz
Cocoa 4 oz
Baking powder 1 tsp
Baking soda 1 tsp
Unsalted butter melted and cooled 5 oz
eggs 3 each room temperature
Granulated sugar 15 oz
Buttermilk 8 fl oz room temperature
Vanilla 1 1/2 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Hot brewed coffee 8 fl oz

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare pans with grease and parchment circles to fit inside the bottom of each pan.
Sift flour,cocoa,baking powder and baking soda. Set aside. Whip butter, eggs and sugar until light and fluffy. This will take a few minutes. Combine buttermilk,vanilla and salt. Add flour mixture alternately with liquid mixture to eggsstarting with flour and ending with flour, blending well after each addition. Scrape well after each getting to the bottom of the bowl. Add coffee slowly and blend well. Pour into prepared pans and bake 35-45 minutes depending on your oven.
Do not overbake. Cool completely. Slice cake into 3 layers. Save the other one to make another BF cake!

Assembly:
Prepare the syrup first see below.

Cream Chantilly:

1 pt heavy cream very cold
2 oz 10X or confectioner's sugar sifted.
1 tsp vanilla.
1 oz dark chocolate melted and set aside.

Whip cream until it begins to foam then add sugar and vanilla and whip until firm peaks form. DO NOT overwhip or you will get butter. This will take only a few inutes so dont walk away. Divide in 1/3 and 2/3 and add melted chocolate to the 1/3 portion.. Fold in gently until blended.

Prepare cherries by pitting about a pound. Set aside.

Combine 1/2 cup granualted sugar and 1/2 cup water in a saucepan and heat until sugar is dissolved. Cool and add 1/4 cup Kirsch. Stir well. Brush all 3 layers of the cake lightly with the syrup. On the bottom layer spread the chocolate cream to the edges and then place cherries in 2 circles one inside the other around the cake but not in the center. Press into the cream. Top with the next cake layer. Spread the vanilla cream on this layer and top with the last cake layer. Frost the cake with the remaining vanilla cream. Mark 8 or 10 portions on top of cake with a knife. Pipe a rosette on the widest part of the portion and top with a cherry. You can decorate the sides with chocolate curls or chopped chocolate or mini chips

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Permalink Reply by Lisa B on July 9, 2010 at 10:55am

Thank You!

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