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#Black forest gateau free#

If you are a beginner you may check that post as well where I share the basics to baking perfect cake. It bakes up to a moist, super soft and flavorful cake. The cake recipe I have used here is the same, the most popular eggless chocolate cake on my blog. I have the recipes for both the versions on the blog. On occasions I have baked this cake with and without eggs. You can make one with eggs or without eggs. You can also use regular cherry syrup, I have added the instructions below for that as well.įor the base, we need a soft and spongy cake. Here in my recipe, I have used a simple sugar syrup as a substitute to alcohol, cherry spirit. As I mentioned earlier every culture and country has a variation of the traditional German Black forest cake.

#Black forest gateau free#

My recipe is based on the German black forest cake, but is egg free and alcohol-free. In a lot of countries, a dessert based on this is made without kirschwasser and it is called black forest cake or Black Forest gateau but not Schwarzwalder Kirshtorte because it has no kirschwasser. Germans, love their traditional dessert so much that the German law mandates “any dessert labelled Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte must have kirschwasser”. The German Schwarzwalder Kirshtorte has an important component, kirschwasser, a clear spirit (alcohol) made from sour cherries.

Rest of the components like the syrup and cherries used vary a lot depending on country. Though this delicious show-stopping dessert originated in Germany, it is made around the world that features slightly different versions.īut one thing that is true about the black forest cake, it is made with several layers of chocolate sponge cake, with a rich and addictive whipped cream and cherry filling.

Lastly it is decorated with some whipped cream frosting, maraschino cherries & chocolate shavings. But rustic = cute and handmade right? Tips I learnt from this was to really make sure the cherry filling is evenly spread so the cake doesn’t fall down at the sides.Black forest cake also known as Black Forest gateau, is a classic chocolate sponge cake with cream and cherry filling, based on a German dessert, “Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte” which translates to “Black forest cherry torte”.Ī typical black forest cake has several layers of super light chocolate sponge cake soaked with kirschwasser (cherry spirit), then sandwiched with whipped cream & cherries.

Assembling! So as you can see from the slightly ‘rustic’ appearance of the gateau I didn’t exactly assemble the cake to perfection.

Stacking the filling covered cakes! As you have to spread the cherry mixture onto the soaked sponges before stacking, when you do come to stack them its tricky! In hindsight, I definitely shouldn’t have stacked them on the opposite side of the kitchen to where they were cooling… But you live and learn!.

But use a serrated knife, keep a steady but slow hand and turn the cake as you go.

Cutting the sponges into four! The batter doesn’t yield huge cakes so cutting each into two was a little tense at times.

So the trickiest parts to the Black Forest Gateau are as follows: Surprisingly though its not too rich, mainly because the whipped cream cuts through it all! There’s no getting around it, so if alcohol isn’t for you you might want to skip this one! It also makes the cake a little on the pricey side, so save it for a celebration.Īnyway, onto the actual cake! This is choc-a-block with filling, and packed with flavour! You’ve got the cherry brandy soaked sponges, kirsch plumped cherries and a lot of whipped cream.

The classic seventies dessert is a personal favourite of Craig’s, so when his 25th Birthday rolled around I knew what was gonna be on the menu!