Authentic Black Forest Cake From Scratch

Being czech i am all about all things bavarian chocolatey rich and decadent.

Authentic black forest cake from scratch.

This nearly authentic black forest cake gives you all the traditional flavors with some of the shortcuts we busy people need. Kirsch is a clear colorless fruit liquor made from sour cherries and is what gives black forest cake its distinct cherry flavor in addition to the cherries in the filling. Spread 3 4 cup filling to within 1 in. Before you start please check this page for flour facts and gram to cup conversion.

Spoon remaining filling onto top of cake. This delicious cake recipe is completely made from scratch and perfect for special occasions. Grease two 9 cake round cake pans. Top with 1 1 2 cups whipped cream.

Prepare the shortcrust pastry. Top with remaining cake layer. Preheat the oven and grease a 28 cm 11 in springform pan. Gradually beat the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.

In a small bowl stir together cornstarch and 4 tbsp of canned sour cherry water to combine. Place one cake layer on a serving plate. There are so many variations on a black forest cake but they really miss the mark. Black forest cake is a traditional german dessert made with chocolate sponge cake layers filled with whipped cream and cherries.

In a heavy bottomed saucepan bring 1 4 cup canned sour cherry water kirsch and sugar over medium heat to a simmer. Place drained sour cherries into a medium sized bowl. To make the cake. Authentic black forest cake schwarzwald kirsch kuchen recipe by bk geegee.

Nearly authentic black forest cake. Combine the cocoa flour sugar buttermilk powder cake enhancer baking powder baking soda and salt. Stir constantly pour in the cherry cornstarch mixture and cook for 1 2 minutes. Directions for black forest cake recipe.

In a separate bowl whisk together the water oil and vanilla. Sift flour baking powder and cocoa into a mixing bowl add butter sugar vanilla sugar and kirsch. If you cannot get fresh cherries you can use canned bing cherries but please do not use cherry pie filling because it will take. The cake baked up beautifully the cherries were perfect and the whole thing just came together wonderfully.

The only change i made and i heartily recommend it is that i made a syrup out of 1 2 cup reserved cherry juice 1 2 cup sugar and 1 4 cup kirsch cherry liqueur. Knead the dough either with your hands or with a hand mixer kneading hook. Preheat the oven to 350 f. Being born in germany this cake was always one of my favorite desserts it is served at every special family occasion and always a hit.

Black forest cake is a chocolate layer cake named for the region in germany where schwarzwalder kirsch wasser is made.