Steps to Make Award-winning Black Forest Cake

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, black forest cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Black Forest Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Black Forest Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook black forest cake using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:

1. Get 1 2/3 cup cake flour
2. Make ready 2 eggs
3. Get 4 oz kirsch (brandy)
4. Prepare 12 oz buttermilk
5. Make ready 16 oz heavy whipping cream
6. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
7. Take 3 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
8. Take 1 oz semisweet baking chocolate
9. Prepare 4 oz shortening
10. Get 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
11. Prepare 1 pinch salt
12. Take 8 oz butter
13. Make ready 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
14. Take 3 tsp kirsch
15. Make ready 1 tsp salt
16. Prepare 1 tsp coffee (very strong)
17. Get 14 oz sweet cherries in heavy syrup, drained
18. Take 12 oz sugar
19. Take 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions to make Black Forest Cake:

1. In a mixing bowl, combine cake flour, baking soda, cocoa and one teaspoon salt through a sieve, mix well and keep it aside.
2. Cream shortening in a medium-sized mixing bowl and add sugar to it. Stir continuously till the mixture becomes light and fluffy. Add eggs along with the vanilla essence into it and mix thoroughly.
3. Add the above mixture into the flour mixture, along with 8 ounces of buttermilk (alternatively). Mix well till all the ingredients are blended completely.
4. Take two 8 inch round pans and place parchment circles at the surfaces and pour the prepared cake mixture into it. Bake both the pans in a 350°F preheated oven for at least 35-40 minutes or till it is completely done. Do the toothpick test to check whether the cake is baked fully before taking it out.
5. Let the baked cakes cool completely on a wire rack. Once this is done, slice the cakes from the center horizontally. Pour 1 ounce kirsch each on the cut side of both the cakes and set aside.
6. Beat the butter in another bowl till it becomes light and fluffy. Add a pinch of salt, coffee, remaining buttermilk, confectioners sugar and mix well.
7. Take one layer of the cake on a plate and spread 1/3 of the filling on it evenly. Place 1/3 of the cherries on top of it and place another layer of cake above it and repeat the same procedure.
8. Once all the layers have been filled, make a mixture with 3 teaspoons kirsch and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and pour over the cake. Prepare icing by whisking cream in a bowl and adding it to the uppermost layer. To decorate the cake, sprinkle chocolate shavings on top of the cake.

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