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Black Forest Cake By Chef Team ZZ

Also known as - Black Forest Cake

Team ZZ
The black forest cake is a traditional German dessert that is composed of layers of chocolate sponge cake, whipped cream, and cherries.

Serves4

Cooking Time20-30 Min

Meal Typecake

Preparation Time10-12 Min

DifficultyMEDIUM

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Ingredients

  • For batter

    • 130 gram maida (white wheat flour)

    • 30 gram cocoa powder

    • 1 tsp baking powder

    • 1/2 tsp baking soda

    • 200 gram condense milk

    • 60 gram castor sugar

    • 80 ml oil

    • 1 tsp vanilla essence

    • 90 ml milk

    • 1 tsp vinegar

  • For compote

    • 250 gram seedless cherries

    • 75 gram castor sugar

    • 1 star anise

    • 1 inch cinnamon stick

    • ½ tbsp corn flour

    • ⅓ cup water

  • For layering

    • whipping cream

    • cherry juice

    • cherry compote

    • cherry

    • chocolate ganache

    • chocolate shaving

  • Other

    • cake board

    • piping bags

    • star nozzles

PREPARATION

  1. 1

    Take a bowl and add milk.

  2. 2

    Now add vinegar in it.

  3. 3

    Mix it well and keep it aside.

  4. 4

    Now add all the dry ingredients like maida (white wheat flour), cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda in a bowl and mix well and keep aside.

  5. 5

    Take another bowl and put condensed milk in it.

  6. 6

    Mix it well using a manual or automatic whisker. So, that it becomes in the form of cream.

  7. 7

    After the texture of the cream has been made, add castor sugar and vanilla essence to it, mix well.

  8. 8

    Now we will add dry ingredients which we have already mixed, and we will mix it.

  9. 9

    Now add milk mixture and oil, mix it well.

  10. 10

    Now the mixture is ready. We will put this mixture in the cake tin, but before that we will apply butter inside the cake tin so that the cake does not stick and then put baking paper on the bottom of the cake tin.

  11. 11

    Now bake this batter @170°c for 25-30 minutes. After that take it out and keep it aside to cool down.

  12. 12

    Take a pan and add cherries, castor sugar, cinnamon stick, star anise.

  13. 13

    Now add water.

  14. 14

    Cook until sugar dissolve and cherries become soft.

  15. 15

    Meanwhile mix corn flour and mix well. Pour the slurry mixture into the compote and cook until the mixture becomes thick.

  16. 16

    Now we will do layering of the baked cake, so first of all cut the cake into 2 layers and take one layer and place it on the cake board.

  17. 17

    Soak with cherry juice.

  18. 18

    Pipe whipping cream in a circle and fill the cavity with cherry compote cover with thin layer of whipping cream.

  19. 19

    Place the second layer and repeat the same process.

  20. 20

    Place the top layer, soak with cherry juice and cover the cake with whipping cream.

  21. 21

    Refrigerate it for 15 minutes. Do the finale finish of the cake with whipping cream. Cover half cake with chocolate shaving.

  22. 22

    Pipe flowers or any design on the edges of the top. Pour the ganache in the centre.

  23. 23

    Place cherries on the top and if you don’t have cherries use any fruit instead.

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