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Black Forest Gateau
Black Forest Gateau is a layered chocolate cake, with cherry and kirsch filling, with whipped cream between each layer. The cake also decorated with piped, whipped cream, cherries, and chocolate shavings.
Ingredients
- 100 grams plain chocolate semi-sweet
- 4 eggs
- 100 grams self-raising flour
- 25 grams cornflour
- 1 pinch of salt
- 150 grams butter 1softened
- 100 grams caster sugar
- 300 millilitres double cream
- 3 tablespoon black cherry jam
Decoration
- 100 grams 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