![]() ![]() If you do not have an oven, you can also bake this cake in a cooker or heavy bottom pot or pan following this cooker cake recipe. However If you prefer using eggs to make your chocolate sponge you may check this chocolate sponge cake. If you are a beginner you may check that post as well where I share the basics to baking perfect cake. It bakes up to a moist, super soft and flavorful cake. The cake recipe I have used here is the same, the most popular eggless chocolate cake on my blog. I have the recipes for both the versions on the blog. On occasions I have baked this cake with and without eggs. You can make one with eggs or without eggs. You can also use regular cherry syrup, I have added the instructions below for that as well.įor the base, we need a soft and spongy cake. Here in my recipe, I have used a simple sugar syrup as a substitute to alcohol, cherry spirit. As I mentioned earlier every culture and country has a variation of the traditional German Black forest cake. My recipe is based on the German black forest cake, but is egg free and alcohol-free. In a lot of countries, a dessert based on this is made without kirschwasser and it is called black forest cake or Black Forest gateau but not Schwarzwalder Kirshtorte because it has no kirschwasser. Germans, love their traditional dessert so much that the German law mandates “any dessert labelled Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte must have kirschwasser”. The German Schwarzwalder Kirshtorte has an important component, kirschwasser, a clear spirit (alcohol) made from sour cherries. Rest of the components like the syrup and cherries used vary a lot depending on country. Though this delicious show-stopping dessert originated in Germany, it is made around the world that features slightly different versions.īut one thing that is true about the black forest cake, it is made with several layers of chocolate sponge cake, with a rich and addictive whipped cream and cherry filling. Lastly it is decorated with some whipped cream frosting, maraschino cherries & chocolate shavings. ![]() This cake blew my mind, the cake itself is moist and rich, slightly soaked by the cherry Kirsch, topped with a whipped cream and coffee flavored frosting, accompanied by dark cherries which have also been soaked in Kirsch.Black forest cake also known as Black Forest gateau, is a classic chocolate sponge cake with cream and cherry filling, based on a German dessert, “Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte” which translates to “Black forest cherry torte”.Ī typical black forest cake has several layers of super light chocolate sponge cake soaked with kirschwasser (cherry spirit), then sandwiched with whipped cream & cherries. This is the ingredient, with its distinctive cherry pit flavor and alcoholic content, that gives the cake its flavor. Some interesting tidbits I learned about this cake is that it is not named directly after the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) mountain range in southwestern Germany but rather from the specialty liquor of that region, known as Schwarzwälder Kirsch(wasser) and distilled from tart cherries. This cake is the exact opposite of the American version in every way. I put "Authentic" in the title because the Black Forest Cake I was used too consisted of sickeningly sweet frosting and artificial maraschino cherries (oh America, you so silly). I got a job today! Not just any job, but a job that will surround me with freshly baked breads and coffee beverages on a daily basis AND I actually get paid for it! There is nothing left to do but celebrate with cake!Īs you can see I am continuing the German theme, I'm not sure why but I have been obsessed with everything that is German lately. ![]()
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