Authentic German Black Forest Cake Recipe

Directions for black forest cake recipe.

Authentic german black forest cake recipe.

Before you start please check this page for flour facts and gram to cup conversion. Some historians believe the cake in fact got its name from the traditional outfit that was worn by women in the black forest. Knead the dough either with your hands or with a hand mixer kneading hook. Place one cake layer on a serving plate.

Black forest cake is a traditional german dessert made with chocolate sponge cake layers filled with whipped cream and cherries. In a small bowl stir together cornstarch and 4 tbsp of canned sour cherry water to combine. If can t find kirsch do not use another type of alcohol because it will not turn out. It still has chocolate cake cherries and real whipped cream but it uses a cake mix some pie filling and freshly 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. Traditional black forest cake. Ingredients for shortcrust pastry for traditional black forest cake. 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. 150 g 5 3 oz of flour all purpose 1 tablespoon of cocoa. This delicious cake recipe is completely made from scratch and perfect for special occasions. Authentic german black forest cake or schwarzwalder kirschtorte is a wonderful cake.

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. It s what you serve when you want german food without the fuss. 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. The traditional black forest cake is called schwarzwälder kirschtorte in germany.

Preheat the oven and grease a 28 cm 11 in springform pan. 1 teaspoon of baking powder 75 g 2 64 oz of sugar. Top with remaining cake layer. 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.

Place drained sour cherries into a medium sized bowl. Prepare the shortcrust pastry. 1 pinch of salt. My german black forest cherry cake tastes almost like the traditional one.

Sift flour baking powder and cocoa into a mixing bowl add butter sugar vanilla sugar and kirsch. 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. Spread 3 4 cup filling to within 1 in.