Black Forest Recipe
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Ingredients
For the sponge cake- 4 eggs
- 125 gm sugar
- 100gm cake flour
- 25 gm cocoa powder
- 500 ml whipping cream
- 2 Tbsp icing sugar
- 1 can pitted dark sweet cherries
- 100 gm shaved chocolate
- 300 ml water
- 100 gm sugar
- 1-2 Tbsp rum
- 8 glace cherries
How to make Black Forest
For the cake
- Sift flour and cocoa powder together, set aside.
- Whisk together the eggs and sugar.
- Place the bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Beat about 10 minutes or till lukewarm.
- Remove from heat, beat on high speed till it triples in volume and cool.
- Gently fold in the flour mixture to the eggs mixture.
- Pour batter into a 20 cm cake pan.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180° for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Invert cake and leave to cool.
For the syrup
Boil sugar and water. When cool add rum.
Whip the cream with icing sugar until stiff.
- Cut cake into 3 layers.
- Place 1 layer of cake on cake stand, brush generously with the syrup.
- Cover the cake with cream, add half of the pitted cherries.
- Repeat with the 2nd layer of cake.
- Place the 3rd layer and brush with syrup.
- Frost the whole cake with the remaining whipped cream and decorate with shaved chocolate and glace cherries.
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