Recipe: Yummy Black Forest Cake

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Black Forest Cake was a staple when I was growing up (much to my dismay…read on). Black Forest Cake is a traditional German dessert made with chocolate sponge cake layers filled with whipped cream and cherries. This delicious cake recipe is completely made from scratch and perfect for special occasions! You can have Black Forest Cake using 24 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Black Forest Cake

1. You need 7 of eggs.
2. You need 1 cup of sugar.
3. You need 1 of //2 cup cocoa.
4. You need 1 cup of flour.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
6. Prepare 1/2 tsp of bicarbonate.
7. You need 80 gm of dark chocolate to garnish.
8. It's of For the Rum Syrup.
9. Prepare 1/2 cup of rum.
10. You need 3 cups of water.
11. It's 1 cup of sugar.
12. You need of Mix until it dissolves completely.
13. It's of Put whatever remains in the fridge for later use.
14. Prepare of Whipping Cream.
15. You need 500 ml of whipping cream.
16. It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
17. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla essence.
18. Prepare of Add all ingredients together and whisk until soft peaks form.
19. You need of Put whatever remains in fridge for later use.
20. You need of Strawberries.
21. Prepare 250 g of strawberries.
22. It's of Wash them thoroughly.
23. You need of Pick 8 good ones for garnishing the top and chop the rest.
24. It's of into small pieces for using inside the black forest cake.

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! Ingredients and How to Make Black Forest Cake. The syrups makes the cake ultra moist - my favorite part of.

Black Forest Cake detailed

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees.
2. Grease the baking tin and dust with flour.
3. Separate eggs, leaving whites in a bowl and yolks in a cup.
4. Whisk the egg whites until fluffy and soft peaks form.
5. Add the yolks and continue whisking until well mixed.
6. Add sugar and continue whisking.
7. Add flour, cocoa, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and fold into the mixture.
8. Pour into prepared tin and bake at 180 degrees for 40 min.
9. Let it cool before you ice it.
10. With a knife cut the cake into three equal parts.
11. Brush with 1 cup rum syrup making sure all slices are moist.
12. Place bottom slice on board, apply 1/3 of the cream and half the cut strawberries.
13. Place the next slice, apply 1/3 of the cream and the remaining strawberries.
14. Cover the cake with the remaining cream and shave chocolate onto the cake.
15. Garnish the top with the selected strawberries cut into halves..

This version of Black Forest cake gets you an easy, delicious, and moist cake by using cherry pie filling and devil's food cake mix. Place one cake layer on a serving plate. Frost top and sides of cake with remaining whipped cream, reserving some to pipe decorations, if desired. Spoon remaining filling onto top of cake. Sift the dry cake ingredients together.