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🍽️ Classic Black Forest Cake
685 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 60 g Butter
- 50 g Sugar
- 1 Pinch Salt
- 3 Eggs
- 100 ml Milk
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 2 tbsp Cocoa Powder
- 120 g Flour
- 10 ml Kirsch (Cherry Brandy)
- 1 Jar Sour Cherries (approx. 350 g drained weight)
- 2 tbsp Vanilla Sugar
- 2 tsp Cornstarch
- 400 ml Heavy Cream
- 1 packet Whipping Cream Stabilizer
- 50 g Chocolate Shavings
- 40 g Sliced Almonds (roasted)
Instructions
- 1. Beat 50 grams of butter with sugar and a pinch of salt until creamy.
- 2. Add the eggs one by one and mix well.
- 3. Stir in the milk and the flour mixture (mixed with baking powder and cocoa) alternately.
- 4. Brush the hot waffle iron with a little butter.
- 5. Pour about one third of the batter into the mold and bake the waffle.
- 6. Repeat the process until three waffles are baked.
- 7. Remove the waffles and brush them with kirsch (cherry brandy).
- 8. Let the waffles cool down completely.
- 9. Let the cherries drain well and catch the juice.
- 10. Bring the juice to a boil with vanilla sugar.
- 11. Mix cornstarch with two tablespoons of water until smooth.
- 12. Add the starch mixture to the boiling juice to thicken it.
- 13. Add the cherries, remove the pan from the heat, and let the filling cool down.
- 14. Place one of the waffles on a cake plate.
- 15. Whip the cream with cream stabilizer until stiff.
- 16. Mix the chocolate shavings into half of the whipped cream.
- 17. Set aside about ten cherries for decoration.
- 18. Spread the remaining cherries on the first waffle.
- 19. Place a second waffle on top.
- 20. Spread the whipped cream containing chocolate shavings over the waffle.
- 21. Top the cake with the third waffle.
- 22. Fill the remaining whipped cream into a piping bag with a star tip.
- 23. Decorate the cake with the cream.
- 24. Top the cake with the reserved cherries.
- 25. Sprinkle with toasted almonds and serve the cake.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 685
- Protein: 7 g · Fett/Fat: 43 g · Carbs: 62 g