Authentic German Black Forest Cake Recipe

This cake isn t meant to be very sweet but is rather a dessert for adults with deep rich flavours and enough alcohol to make your head spin.

Authentic german black forest cake recipe.

Ingredients for shortcrust pastry for traditional black forest cake. It s what you serve when you want german food without the fuss. This delicious cake recipe is completely made from scratch and perfect for special occasions. Spread 3 4 cup filling to within 1 in.

Frost top and sides of cake with remaining whipped cream reserving some to pipe decorations if desired. Only this one s really really easy and super quick to make. 1 pinch of salt. If you cannot get fresh cherries you can use canned bing cherries but please do not use cherry pie filling because it will take away from the authentic taste of the cake.

Place one cake layer on a serving plate. 150 g 5 3 oz of flour all purpose 1 tablespoon of cocoa. It still has chocolate cake cherries and real whipped cream but it uses a cake mix some pie filling and freshly whipped cream. Top with 1 1 2 cups whipped cream.

This attire consists of a black dress white blouse and a hat with red pom poms on top all mimicking the chocolate shavings cream and cherries that top the cake. Sift flour baking powder and cocoa into a mixing bowl add butter sugar vanilla sugar and kirsch. I spent many years living in the netherlands along the border of germany and we would do our shopping across the german border groceries dining in various nearby towns and cities. Prepare the shortcrust pastry.

Before you start please check this page for flour facts and gram to cup conversion. Preheat the oven and grease a 28 cm 11 in springform pan. Knead the dough either with your hands or with a hand mixer kneading hook. Black forest cake is a traditional german dessert made with chocolate sponge cake layers filled with whipped cream and cherries.

Spoon remaining filling onto top of cake. In a heavy bottomed saucepan bring 1 4 cup canned sour cherry water kirsch and sugar over medium heat to a simmer. Authentic german black forest cake or schwarzwalder kirschtorte is a wonderful cake. Place drained sour cherries into a medium sized bowl.

In a small bowl stir together cornstarch and 4 tbsp of canned sour cherry water to combine. Some historians believe the cake in fact got its name from the traditional outfit that was worn by women in the black forest. Top with remaining cake layer. 1 teaspoon of baking powder 75 g 2 64 oz of sugar.

If can t find kirsch do not use another type of alcohol because it will not turn out. Stir constantly pour in the cherry cornstarch mixture and cook for 1 2 minutes. Directions for black forest cake recipe. My german black forest cherry cake tastes almost like the traditional one.