Black Forest Cake
Black Forest Cake is a delicious cake which gets it’s name from being dark, chocolatey with hints of red cherries and resembling the black forests. I finally made the quintessential black forest cake using fresh cherries.
Servings: 8 inch layered cake
Ingredients
- 3 layers old fashioned chocolate cake
- 3 cup fresh or canned cherries
- 2 tbsp rum
- 2 tsp sugar granulated
- 1 tbsp cornstarch or cornflour
Instructions
- Bake 3 layers of old fashioned chocolate cake.
- To prepare cherry filling - place cherries and rum in a thick bottom sauce pot. Whisk sugar and cornstarch in a small bowl and then add to the cherries. Cook over low flame, till cherries come to a boil and thickens. If you are suing fresh cherries, then you need to cook them till fruit is tender. Allow to cool completely. You may need to add ¼ cup of water or cherry syrup if the sauce is too thick while cooking.
- Assemble and decorate as per your choice.
Notes
- Bake 3 layers of old fashioned chocolate cake.
- Recipe for cherry filling is here.
- Assemble and decorate as per your choice, I spread a thick layer of whipped cream and topped with another generous helping of cherry filling on each layer. For the final topping, I spread a thin layer of ganache and then placed several fresh cherries with chocolate shavings and curls.
- If using canned cherries then drain them. I used 400 grams of canned cherries for filling.