Black Forest Cherry Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    Cake
    6 large eggs
    1 cup sugar
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    4 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate (There should be 4 squares of chocolate and it should be melted.)
    1 cup flour, sifted
    Syrup
    1/4 cup sugar
    1/3 cup water
    2 tablespoons kirsch
    Filling
    1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
    1/3 cup butter, unsalted
    1 large egg yolk
    2 tablespoons kirsch liqueur
    Topping
    2 cups sour cherries, canned, drained
    2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
    1 cup cream, heavy, whipped
    8 ounces semisweet chocolate bars
Preparation
    CAKE: Beat eggs, sugar, and vanilla together until thick and fluffy, about 10 minutes.
    Alternately fold chocolate and flour into the egg mixture, ending with flour.
    Pour the batter into 3 8-inch cake pans that have been well greased and floured.
    Bake in a preheated 350 degree F. oven for 10 to 15 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
    Cool cakes in pans for 5 minutes; turn out on racks to cool completely.
    SYRUP: Make syrup by mixing together sugar and water and boiling for 5 minutes.
    When syrup has cooled, stir in kirsch.
    Prick the cake layers and pour syrup over all 3 layers.
    FILLING: To make the butter-cream filling, beat together sugar and butter until well blended.
    Add egg yolk; beat until light and fluffy, about 3 to 5 minutes.
    Fold in Kirsch.
    CAKE ASSEMBLY: To assemble cake, place 1 layer on a cake plate.
    Spread with butter cream filling.
    Using 3/4 cup of the cherries, which have been patted dry, drop cherries evenly over cream.
    Place second layer on cake.
    Repeat.
    Place third layer on top.
    Fold 2 T confectioners' sugar into the whipped cream.
    Cover the sides and top of the cake with whipped cream.
    Decorate top of cake with remaining 1/2 cup cherries.
    To make chocolate curls from chocolate bar, shave (at room temperature) with a vegetable peeler.
    Refrigerate curls until ready to use.
    Press chocolate curls on sides of cake and sprinkle a few on the top.
    Chill until serving time.

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