Black Forest Cake

 Black Forest Cake Recipe

Ingredients

½ cup (110 g) butter, softened
1+¼ cup (275 g) Sugar
2 eggs Optional
1+¼ cup or (140 g) all-purpose flour
½ cup (50 g) unsweetened cocoa powder, natural
½ teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
¾ cup (1.8 dl) Butter Milk

Ingredients for filling

¼ cup Cherry brandy, optional
2 cans (400 g) cherry pie filling or pitted cherries
3 cups (7.2 dl) whipping cream, chilled
¼ cup confectioners' sugar
Milk chocolate curls or shavings, for garnish
Maraschino cherries or sweet cherries, for garnish, optional

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350 deg F (Gas mark 4 or 180 deg C).
2. Line a 9 inch (23 cm) cake pan with greaseproof or other non-stick paper.
3. Mix, beat the softened butter with sugar until white and fluffy.
4. Add one egg at a time and mix well between each egg.( Optional)
5. Add sifted flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla extract and buttermilk, and mix until the batter is smooth enough.
6. Transfer to a cake pan and bake at 350 degrees just until set in the middle, approximately 45-60 minutes. A wooden pick inserted in center should come out with just a few moist crumbs on it.
7. After cake is cool, use knife to cut the cake horizontally into 3 equal layers.before cutting kept cake in Refrigerator for few hours,it would make cutting process easier.

8. Filling

9. Drain cherry pie filling in a colander to remove most of the thickened juices.
10. Beat the whipping cream with confectioners' sugar until it thickens.
11. Using a vegetable peeler, shave chocolate; refrigerate until the cake is assembled.

Assembling

1. Sprinkle each layer of the cake with Kirschwasser.
2. Place one cake layer on a serving plate.
3. Spread about one fifth of the whipped cream on the layer, and strew half of the cherries on top of the whipped cream.
4. Add the second cake layer.
5. Spread one fifth of the whipped cream on the second layer and the remaining cherries on top.
6. Add the third cake layer.
7. Spread one fifth of the whipped cream on top and one fifth on the sides. Gently press chocolate curls on the sides and/or on top of the cake.

Here is Black Forest Is ready with yummy taste.