Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwaelder Kirsch Torte)
Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwaelder Kirsch Torte)

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook black forest cake (schwarzwaelder kirsch torte) using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwaelder Kirsch Torte):
  1. Get 75 Grams Butter
  2. Take 6 Eggs
  3. Prepare 180 Grams Sugar
  4. Take 100 Grams All Purpose Flour
  5. Make ready 2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
  6. Get 50 Grams Cornstarch (Speisestaerke)
  7. Get 140 Grams Chocolate Bittersweet ( Kuvertuere, Zartbitter)
  8. Make ready (drained weight) 800 glass jar Cherries from a Grams
  9. Make ready 500 Millilitres cherries Juice from
  10. Make ready 4 Tablespoons Cornstarch , (levelled)
  11. Prepare 2 Tablespoons Sugar
  12. Take 100 Millilitres Kirschwasser (Liquor)
  13. Make ready 800 Millilitres Cream Whipped
  14. Get 3 Packet Vanilla Sugar
  15. Get 17 Cherries (candied)
  16. Make ready 100 Grams Chocolate shavings , Bittersweet

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! If can't find Kirsch do not use another type of alcohol because it will not turn out the same - instead use cherry juice. Because of the high alcohol content. Black Forest Cake is one rich and decadent cake.

Steps to make Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwaelder Kirsch Torte):
  1. Melt the bittersweet chocolate with butter in a waterbath. Seperate the eggs. Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks. (Ref: See links & videos in Step 8.)
  2. Beat egg yolks with sugar till fluffy. Stir in bittersweet chocolate. Sift the flour, cornstarch and baking powder into the egg whites and lightly fold.(Ref: Folding -See link in Step 9.)
  3. Fill the mix in a baking paper lined springform pan. Preheat the oven at 175 degree celsius. Bake it for 40-45 minutes. Leave it to cool on a wire rack. After it is cooled, divide the cake twice horizontally (3 layers).(Ref: See video in step 9.)
  4. Pour sour cherries through a sieve and seperate the juice, mix corstarch with sugar and stir with juice until smooth. Bring the remaining juice to boil, add cornstarch and bring to a boil, add the cherries and let it cool slightly, and set it by pouring half of the cherry liquor (Kirschwasser).
  5. Soak the the 2 layers of cake with cherry liquor (Kirschwasser) and distribute the half of the cherry mixture and let it cool and allowed to gel.
  6. Whip the cream until stiff with vanilla sugar. Place the first layer on the cake plate and spread quarter of the whipped cream on top. Repeat it with second layer and cover it with the layer of biscuit base. Flavour it with cherry water too.
  7. Brush the cake around with cream, fill the rest for decorating into a piping bag. Cover the edge and the surface with grated chocolate. Decorate the outside with 16 cream rosette and in the middle with a cream rosette and place a cherry on top of each rosette and the cake is done!
  8. Melt chocolate http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/techniques/melting_chocolateBeat Eggwhites to stiff peaks http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/tools-and-techniques/how-to-cook-eggs3.htmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEfO4cL-yqM
  9. Folding http://www.homebaking.org/glossary/old_glossary.html#.UpeoicRLM4wVideos : Cut cake into layers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHyGSrCm8c8

Homemade cake, sour cherry filling, and topped with This classic German cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte), is moist, flavorful, and a crowd favorite. Dutch-processed cocoa is darker in color and has a strong chocolate flavor. Origins of the black forest cake. The Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte got its name neither from the Kirsch is the common name for Kirschwasser, the clear schnapps which is not a sweet liquor. Making a Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte is not done in a few minutes, however.

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