Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, black forest gateau. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Black Forest gateau is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Black Forest gateau is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook black forest gateau using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Black Forest gateau:
- Take 175 g salted butter
- Take 200 g dark chocolate bar
- Get 300 g plain flour
- Prepare 375 g golden caster sugar
- Take 25 g cocoa
- Prepare 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Make ready 2 medium eggs
- Get 200 g buttermilk or natural yoghurt
- Get To assemble
- Take 435 g can pitted cherries, 2 tablespoon juice reserved
- Get 100 g cherry jam
- Make ready 4 tablespoon kirsch (or more juice from a can of you want it to be non-alcoholic)
- Get 500 ml tub double cream
- Make ready 3 tablespoon icing sugar
- Take 1 small punnet small cherries (optional)
Steps to make Black Forest gateau:
- Heat the oven to 180C. Grease and line the base of cake tins. Boil the kettle. Put the butter and 75g chocolate broken into chunks in a small pan and gently heat, stirring, until completely melted.
- Mix together the flour, sugar, cocoa and baking soda with a pinch of salt in a mixing bowl. Whisk the eggs and buttermilk or yogurt together. Scrape the melted chocolate mixture and egg mixture into the dry ingredients, add 100ml boiling water and whisk briefly with an electric whisk until the cake batter has no lumps.
- Divide the mixture between the tins and bake for 25 mins, swapping the tins round after 20 mins if they’re on different shelves. To test they're done, push in a skewer and check that it comes out clean.
- Prick the cakes a few times with a skewer. Mix together the 2 tbsp reserved cherry juice and the kirsch (or more juice) and drizzle over the cakes. Cool the cakes.
- Mix together the remaining drained cherries and jam. Tip 200ml of the cream into a small pan and heat until just below simmering point. Chop the remaining chocolate and put in a heatproof bowl, pour over the hot cream and stir until melted. Set aside until spreadable.
- When the cakes are cool whisk the remaining cream and the icing sugar together until softly whipped. Spread over two of the cakes, then spoon over the jammy cherries. Stack the cakes together. Spread the chocolate cream over the third cake and sit on top of the other cakes. Pile the fresh cherries in and around the cake and serve.
- Enjoy!
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