The Black Forest is not a scary place, but an amazing German cake. You can also find the second name of this dessert - the Black Forest. So he is called in Germany, where dessert first appeared.
Cake "Black Forest" - general principles of preparation
Cakes for the "Black Forest" are always made chocolate. In the classic recipe they are baked one at a time, but more and more often you can find a simplified way. A common cake is made in it, then it is cut with horizontal plates, usually three of them. You can do more, but not less. Cakes are coated with cream, cheese or any other similar cream.
In a classic cake, in addition to cream, cherry is used for the filling. You can use canned or fresh berries, but they require pre-treatment, usually it is boiling or evaporating the syrup. Sugar, liquor or cognac may be added to the filling. The same ingredients are present in the impregnation. Decorate the cake with icing, grease with ganache or simply sprinkle with chocolate chips after pre-coating with cream.
Classic cake "Black Forest" with cheese and cherries
Cream for this cake "Black Forest" is prepared with cream cheese "Philadelphia". The delicate layer perfectly complements the rich chocolate cakes.
Ingredients
• 0.18 kg of white sifted flour;
• 100 ml of boiling water;
• 220 g of sugar (brown cane is better);
• 20 g of cocoa;
• 50 g of oil;
• 160 g of fat sour cream;
• 1 egg;
• 1 tsp soda.
Cream:
• 0.25 kg of cheese;
• 0.1 l cream (fatty for whipping);
• 60 g of powder.
Ganache:
• 50 g of high quality chocolate;
• 100 ml cream (take at least 30%);
• a spoonful of oil.
You will also need canned cherries with juice (berries about 250 g), a little starch, a spoonful of liquor for soaking.
Cooking
1. The cake is baked in three forms, but small in diameter, 18-20 cm is enough. Immediately lubricate them, turn on the oven 180 degrees.
2. First we combine all the loose ingredients for dark cakes: cocoa, flour, soda, salt. Then, in parts, add eggs, sour cream, introduce softened (but you can also melt) butter. Stir. The last moment is boiling water. Pour it in a thin stream and quickly mix the mass until smooth.
3. Divide the dough into 3 parts, put it in the forms, align and send to bake. Cook until dry. Since the cakes are thin, it will take a little time, on average 10-13 minutes. Cool the base.
4. Whip cream for cream. Pour a spoonful of powder, then combine this mass with mashed cheese.
5. We take out the seeds from the cherries, drop them into a saucepan, add starch and 1 tablespoon of syrup or just water. Warm up on fire, cool.
6. In 100 ml of cherry syrup or compote, we dilute a spoonful of liquor or cognac. You can use sugar and water as a base.
7. We collect the "Black Forest". Soak the cakes with syrup, you do not need to water a lot. Lubricate the cake with half the cheese cream, distribute half the cherries. We repeat. Squeeze the last cake and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
8. For half an hour you need to cook ganache. We mix all the components, warm up in a water bath.
9. We get the cake, which was already supposed to “grab” a little and get stronger. Lubricate with a chocolate mass. The "Black Forest" is decorated with fresh or canned cherries.
Cake "Black Forest" with cream in milk
Another variation of the German Black Forest cake. The recipe is not only simplified, but also cheaper.
Ingredients
• 50 g of oil rast. without smell;
• 2 eggs;
• 240 g of cherries in syrup;
• 70 g of powdered sugar;
• 50 g of cocoa;
• 5 g of ripper;
• 160 ml of milk;
• some chocolate sprinkles or grated chocolate (40-60 g);
• 0.4 liters of cream (fatty from 30%);
• 0.2 kg of sugar;
• 0.14 kg of flour.
Cooking
1. Combine eggs and sand, take a mixer and beat together until a white foam. Then we pour milk into the future dough, followed by vegetable oil. We throw a pinch of salt.
2. We mix cocoa, flour, we throw a cultivator. Pour into the first mixture, stir.
3. The dough can be baked in parts, but here it is more convenient to shift into one form. Bake at 170 for about 45-50 minutes. Leave to cool.
4. Cherry spread in a saucepan. If the berries with seeds, then take out. We put on the stove, evaporate the remaining syrup.
5. Beat cream into lush foam. After the mass increases and becomes dense, we introduce a little sugar powder.
6. Cut the cold chocolate cake into three horizontal plates. We try to make them the same thickness.
7. Getting to the assembly. Sprinkle cakes with the same syrup in which there were berries. Lubricate with cream, scatter cherries. We repeat.
8. Grease the top cake with whipped cream and powder, sprinkle with chocolate.
Black Forest Cake with Fresh Cherry
A variation of the Black Forest cake, which uses fresh cherry berries. Cakes are also different, they cook with a lot of eggs.
Ingredients
• six large chicken eggs;
• 0.24 kg of sugar;
• 45 g of potato starch;
• 45 g of cocoa;
• 0.14 kg of wheat flour;
• 10 g (one standard bag) of a cultivator;
• 60 ml of oil.
Cream:
• 0.65 liters of cream (for whipping);
• 120 g of powdered fine sugar.
Filling:
• 0.5 kg of cherries;
• 0.2 kg of granulated sugar;
• 50 grams of starch.
For syrup: 0.1 kg of sugar, 80 ml of cognac, 0.16 liters of water.
Cooking
1. Prepare a large form and immediately turn on the oven. Pour starch with flour, cocoa powder and a cultivator into a sieve. Skip everything together in a bowl.
2. Beat eggs to cool foam with sugar, add chocolate flour with cultivators, stir and add vegetable oil. Bake at 180 for about 35 minutes. We cool for at least three hours and only after that we lay down horizontally for three flat cakes.
3. The cream is prepared simply: whip the cream with powder.
4. Free cherries, put in a saucepan, add sugar and boil in your juice for about five minutes. We breed starch with a small amount of water, add to the berries, quickly stir, warm and cool.
5. Impregnation also does not require high culinary skills: dissolve sugar in hot water, cool and add starch.
6. Cake assembly: soak the cake with cognac syrup, grease with cream, spread half the cherry filling. We repeat. Grease the top with cream, but you can cover it with chocolate or just sprinkle it.
Black Forest Cake with Bananas
For this cake, bake cakes in any way, a regular chocolate biscuit is also suitable. Feature. Bananas and cream cheeses are made from mascarpone cheese.
Ingredients
• 500 g of mascarpone;
• 400 ml cream;
• 210 g of powder;
• 6-7 bananas;
• 130 ml of water;
• 70 g of sugar;
• 4 tablespoons of cognac;
• lemon;
• 65 g of chocolate chips.
Cooking
1. Whip the cream until foam and half icing sugar. Combine the second part with mascarpone cheese or the like. Combine both masses, refrigerate for thirty minutes.
2. Mix boiling water with sand, cool, pour in cognac.
3. Squeeze out all the juice from the lemon. If it is large, you can use half of the citrus.
4. Cut the bananas into small plates immediately before assembling the cake, sprinkle with lemon juice.
5. Now, according to the classical scheme: we put one cake on the dish, soak, a third of the syrup should go. Next, spread the cream, bananas on it. We collect the second layer in the same way.
6. Lubricate the top, sprinkle with chocolate chips or decorate in another way, but not with bananas, they will darken.
Black Forest Cake with Caramel Cream
Another variation of the Black Forest cake with cherries, but with caramel cream. Boiled condensed milk is used, which you can buy or cook yourself. Cook cakes according to any recipe above.
Ingredients
• 1 jar of boiled condensed milk;
• 250 ml of milk;
• 1/3 chocolates;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• 120 g of oil;
• 2 yolks;
• 250 g canned cherries;
• 100 ml of cherry syrup;
• 2 tsp cognac.
Cooking
1. Stir the raw egg yolks with flour, add whole milk to them, put on the stove, and brew. Remove the cream from the heat and immediately add the boiled condensed milk. Stir quickly. Now we introduce the softened oil and beat for about five minutes with a mixer at high speed.
2. Mix the syrup and cognac.
3. Cherries obsolete. If the berries are large, then cut into halves or quarters.
4. Soak the cake, grease with caramel cream, squeeze cherries into it and cover with a second crust. We proceed according to a similar scheme.
5. Top the cake with the rest of the cream, decorate with berries, sprinkle with grated chocolate.
Black Forest Cake with Chocolate Cream
Another variation of the German cake, for which cakes are baked according to any recipes above. But we make chocolate cream.
Ingredients
• 300 g canned cherries;
• 350 ml cream;
• 90 g of dark chocolate;
• 3 tablespoons of powder;
• 2 tablespoons of cognac;
• 110 ml of cherry syrup or compote.
For the decor, a little cocoa or grated white chocolate.
Cooking
1. Break the chocolate into pieces, put in a water bath, melt.
2. We put the seedless cherries in the pan, pour 100 ml of syrup and evaporate the juice so that the berries are not too wet, but get saturated.
3. Beat cream and powder, add melted, but slightly warm chocolate to them. Mix.
4. Combine the ingredients left for impregnation.
5. Put the cakes on a dish, sprinkle with cognac syrup, then chocolate cream and cherry berries, which are best pressed into.
6. The second layer is collected in the same way.
7. Grease the top with cream, you can sprinkle with cocoa powder or make a contrast and use grated white chocolate for decoration.
Cake "Black Forest" - useful tips and tricks
• If the cherries are large, you do not need to lay them whole, the cake will be crooked. It is better to immediately cut the berries in half or quarters.
• Any cream will decorate vanillin. But this is not the case. In "Black Forest" it is better to add liquor or cognac, with them the taste is much more noble.
