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Jane281
Posts: 48
Need Recipe of Chocolate Blackforect Cake ?
9 months ago
I need a good recipe of Chocolate Black forest Cake.
nurse
Posts: 85
Need Recipe of Chocolate Blackforect Cake ?
9 months ago
This is a tried and true recipe from the Australian Women's Weekly cakes and slices cookbook
Rich Black Forest Cake
Ingredients
250g butter, 1 tbsp dry instant coffee, 1 1/2 cups hot water, 200g dark chocolate,chopped, 2 cups castor sugar. 1 1/2 cups self-raising flour, 1 cup plain flour, 1/4 cup cocoa, 2 eggs, 2 tsps vanilla essence, 2 x 300ml thickened cream, 2 x 425g cans cherries drained, 1/4 cup kirsch or cherry brandy or liquor to suit ( I use Tia maria
Method
grease and line deep 23cm round cake tin - grease paper inside as well
melt butter in saucepan, stir in coffee and hot water, then
chocolate and sugar, stir over low heat until smooth (do not boil)
transfer to large bowl and allow to cool to warm
beat mixture on low speed with electric mixer; gradually beat in sifted dry ingredients in 3 lots. Beat in eggs one at a time then essence
pour into cake pan and bake in slow oven (150 Celsius - 300 Fahrenheit)for 1 3/4 hours until cooked - check at 1 1/2 hours
stand 5 minutes before turning out on cake rack
Beat cream until firm peaks form
trim top f cake when cool to make flat surface
split cake into 3 layer
on top of 1st layer brush with liquor, layer of cream and then cherries, repeat. decorate top of cake as before but at chocolate flakes or curls.
You could always just buy 3 chocolate sponges as decorate as wanted but this cake is delicious and I have made it many times over the last 20 years.
Keep on cooking. Nurse
