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🍽️ Classic Black Forest Cake

685 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Beat 50 grams of butter with sugar and a pinch of salt until creamy.
  2. 2. Add the eggs one by one and mix well.
  3. 3. Stir in the milk and the flour mixture (mixed with baking powder and cocoa) alternately.
  4. 4. Brush the hot waffle iron with a little butter.
  5. 5. Pour about one third of the batter into the mold and bake the waffle.
  6. 6. Repeat the process until three waffles are baked.
  7. 7. Remove the waffles and brush them with kirsch (cherry brandy).
  8. 8. Let the waffles cool down completely.
  9. 9. Let the cherries drain well and catch the juice.
  10. 10. Bring the juice to a boil with vanilla sugar.
  11. 11. Mix cornstarch with two tablespoons of water until smooth.
  12. 12. Add the starch mixture to the boiling juice to thicken it.
  13. 13. Add the cherries, remove the pan from the heat, and let the filling cool down.
  14. 14. Place one of the waffles on a cake plate.
  15. 15. Whip the cream with cream stabilizer until stiff.
  16. 16. Mix the chocolate shavings into half of the whipped cream.
  17. 17. Set aside about ten cherries for decoration.
  18. 18. Spread the remaining cherries on the first waffle.
  19. 19. Place a second waffle on top.
  20. 20. Spread the whipped cream containing chocolate shavings over the waffle.
  21. 21. Top the cake with the third waffle.
  22. 22. Fill the remaining whipped cream into a piping bag with a star tip.
  23. 23. Decorate the cake with the cream.
  24. 24. Top the cake with the reserved cherries.
  25. 25. Sprinkle with toasted almonds and serve the cake.

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