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Home » Dessert » Black Forest Gateau

March 12, 2011 By Janice Pattie 2 Comments

Black Forest Gateau

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Black Forest Gateau is a classic recipe for the most delicious dessert cake.  It’s a chocolate cake layered with cream and cherries that was incredibly popular in the 1970s and continues to be popular today. 

Black Forest Gateau

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Home & Freezer Digest

Back in November 2009, I  wrote an article about a great little magazine I used to buy in the early 1980s called ‘Home and Freezer Digest’, it was one of the few home cooking magazines about at that time and I learned a lot from its pages.   

Reader Requests

Just this week I’ve had a couple of comments on this post from other women who enjoyed the magazine but, for one reason or another, have missing copies with missing favourite recipes.    I couldn’t help out Maggie with a Dutch Apple Cake recipe, but I did have the Black Forest Gateau recipe that Diane6 was looking for. 

I regret that I gave most of the magazines to a charity shop, however, I did keep the four little books that you could buy at various times from Home and Freezer Digest:
 

Will it Freeze?

I think this little book was the first one that I got from H&F Digest, it was invaluable for looking up how to freeze different foods, whether they needed blanching and how long you could keep them in the freezer.

 

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Christmas from the Freezer

This was the first Christmas from the freezer book and it has lots of great ideas to help you get ahead,  I certainly made quite a few things from this book.
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100 Best Apple Recipes

This little book is well-thumbed and has some great recipes that I have made a few of them a number of times.  It’s the perfect book if you have your own apple tree and need ideas to use up the glut of apples. 
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The Complete Freezaway Christmas Cookbook

Going by the price this is the last of the books, it has some of the same recipes as the first Christmas book, but lots of different ones too.
 
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Black Forest Gateau

And so to the Black Forest Gateau, there are two different recipes in the two Christmas books, this is the recipe from Christmas from the Freezer. 

Black Forest Gateau

Black Forest Gateau

Christmas from the Freezer
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Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 55 mins
Total Time 1 hr 25 mins
Course Baking, Dessert
Cuisine German
Servings 8
Calories 553 kcal

Ingredients
 

  • 100 g plain chocolate semi-sweet
  • 4 eggs
  • 100 g self-raising flour
  • 25 g cornflour
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 150 g butter 1softened
  • 100 g caster sugar
  • 300 ml double cream
  • 3 tablespoon black cherry jam

Decoration

  • 100 g plain chocolate semi sweet
  • 8 cherries from the black cherry jam

Instructions
 

  • Break up the chocolate and melt in a basin over hot, not boiling water
  • Separate eggs. Sift together flours and salt.
  • Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  • Add melted chocolate and egg yolks beat well.
  • Whisk egg whites stiffly. Fold four into the mixture, then the egg whites.
  • Put into a 7in (17.5cm) greased and lined tin.
  • Bake (325F, 170C, Gas 3) about 55 mins
  • Cool cake in the tin, then turn out. Whip cream. Split cake in two.
  • Spread with black cherry jam, then a third of the cream.
  • Sandwich cake together. Spread the second third of cream smoothly over top.
  • Fill remaining cream into a piping bag and pipe 8 rosettes on top of the cake.

Notes

To serve now: grate the chocolate on a cheese grater to make curls and arrange on cake. Take 8 cherries out of the jam if possible and place each on a rosette.
To freeze: freeze until solid, then pack in a container, seal, label. Use within 3 months.
To serve from the freezer: thaw overnight in the fridge covered. Top with chocolate curls and cherries.

Nutrition

Calories: 553kcalCarbohydrates: 47gProtein: 6gFat: 40gSaturated Fat: 24gCholesterol: 174mgSodium: 191mgPotassium: 172mgFiber: 2gSugar: 30gVitamin A: 1139IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 51mgIron: 1mg
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I have not made this recipe, but the quality of the recipes in H&F Digest is similar to that of BBC Good Food, I have never had a problem with them.  I hope you enjoyed this little bit of 80s cooking.

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  1. Jacqueline says

    March 13, 2011 at 10:04 pm

    Well that is a new one on me. It was good that you found the recipe. Bet it was much appreicated 🙂

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  2. The KitchenMaid says

    March 13, 2011 at 10:33 pm

    Those are brilliant – funny how food styling moves on but we still crave those recipes, isn't it?

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