Who said Germany doesn't offer good food?
Some history? Here we go! "Josef Keller (1887-1981) is the inventor of the Black Forest cherry cake. Keller was the pastry chef in the Café “Ahrend” (today called Agner) in Bad Godesberg. In the year 1915 he created for the first time what he called a 'Schwarzwaelder Kirsch', or 'Black Forest Cherry'. (Credit www.kitchenproject.com) .
Although the original recipe calls for using cherries, mine doesn't as sometimes we bake the Forest cake out of season.
" He want that cake, cake, Cake, cake, cake, cake, cake cake, cake, cake, cake, cake Cake, cake, cake" Rihanna
You'll need - Biscuit
6 eggs with separate whites and yolks
100g brown sugar (I use coconut sugar or muscovado)
150g flour
80g milk
3 ts cocoa powder
1 packet baking powder
1 pinch kosher salt
You'll need - Whipped cream
400g double cream to be frozen 10min before you proceed. It's better when it's very cold
40g icing sugar
1 packet vanilla sugar
Choco chips (flakes)
Directions
Let's start with the biscuit. Preheat your oven to 180°C
Insert the butterfly whisk. Add white eggs and the salt. Mix 4min/ 37°C/ Speed 3,5
Remove the whisk. Gently remove the snow and leave aside in a big bowl
Insert the butterfly whisk once again. Add egg yolks and sugar. Mix 1.30min/Speed 3
Add milk. Mix 10sec/ Speed 3
Remove the whisk. Add flour, cocoa powder and baking powder. Mix 40 sec/ Speed 4
Gently dd the mixture to the white eggs and stir slowly to mix the two preparations
spread butter and some flour in a mold. Add the mixture
Bake for 30. Then add 10 to 20min while checking every 10min
Meantime, place both the bowl and the whisk in the freezer
Once the biscuit is ready, let it cool out of the mold
Let's prepare the whipped cream now. Take the bowl and the whisk out of the freezer
Insert the butterfly whisk. Place the cream in the bowl. Mix .30 sec/ Speed 3
Add icing sugar and vanilla sugar. Mix 1min/ Speed 3,5
Cut the biscuit into 2 layers
The original recipe wants you to add cherry syrup at this step. I don't use this ingredient. Sometimes I make a lemon honey syrup by mixing together....well lemon and honey! but I often leave the cake as it is.
Add a layer of whipper cream
Add the second layer
Cover the whole cake with whipped cream
Add chocolate flakes. As a chocolate lover, I often skip this step and top the cake with chocolate ganache instead hoping it will not add extra pounds around my waist ;) you wanna try it? here it is
Place the cake in the fridge until it's time to taste it.
Play Rihanna song "Birthday cake"
Enjoy!
