Black Forest Cake

In the old tradition, chocolate chiffon soaked with kirshwasser and filled with black bing cherries and whipped cream and now it has be adulterated by adding the kirsch into simple syrup. It is a very delicious change and a very popular cake for any celebration. This year i baked it for Jeremie's birthday.



Ingredients:

(A)

4 egg yolks
40g sugar
1/4 tsp salt


(B)

85ml corn oil warmed
25g cocoa powder

(C)

135ml warm water

(D)

125g cake flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder

(E)

4 egg whites
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
50g sugar


Simple syrup plus 1 tbsp Kirsch

Filling

8 marachino cherries with stems
15 oz can pitted sour cherries halved
1 tbsp cornflour plus 2 tbsp water
400ml whipping cream whipped with 2 tbsp icing sugar
80g shaved Dark Chocolate

Method:

1. Mix ingredients (A) well with a hand whisk.

2. Stir cocoa powder in warmed oil until dissolved and pour into yolk mixture.

3. Stir (C) into yolk mixture.

4. Sieve ingredient (D) and stir it into yolk mixture.

5. Whip egg whites in a clean mixing bowl until big bubbles are formed. Add in the cream of tartar and whip and add in sugar in 3 portions while whipping the whites. Whip until stiff peaks formed.

6. Pour 1/3 white into yolk mixture and blend well.

7. Pour yolk mixture into the remaining egg white mixture and blend well.

8. Pour batter into ungreased 9 inch baking pan and bake at 350 f for 45 minutes or until cooked.

9. Invert cake and leave to cool. Then cut cooled cake into 3 layers.

10. Whip the cream with icing sugar until stiffand leave in the fridge.

11. While cake is baking, prepare the filling.

a. Strain juice of pitted cherries into saucepan.
b. Bring juice to the boil and thicken with cornflour mixture.
c. Bring back to the boil and cook for 1 minute. remove from heat and let cool.
d. Add in the halved pitted cherries.

11. To assemble cake:

a. Slice cooled cake into 4 thin slices.
b. Place one slice of cake on a cake base and brush generously the simple syrup all over the surface.
c. Cover cake with whipped cream and then 1/3 of the filling.
d. Top with another slice of cake and repeat process , simple syrup, cream and filling.
e. Iced the whole assembled cake with whipped cream and decorate with shaved chocolate and marachino cherries.




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