Black Forest Cake
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- Total Time
- 2hrs 0mins
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- Serves
- 10
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- Calories
- 657
Our take on a classic Black Forest cake has dark chocolate layers, mascarpone whipped cream filling and morello cherries, topped with a smooth dark chocolate ganache.
recipe updated Feb 17, 2022
Ingredients
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- Egg
- 6
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- Granulated sugar
- 220 g
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- All purpose flour
- 75 g
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- Cocoa powder
- 4 tablespoons
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- Dark chocolate
- 375 g
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- Kirsch
- 2 tablespoons
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- Heavy cream
- 150 g
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- Mascarpone cheese
- 200 g
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- Vanilla bean pod
- 1
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- Dark chocolate
- 50 g
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- Canned morello cherries
- 550 g
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- Heavy cream
- 160 g
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- Cherries
- as needed
Tools
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Stand mixer
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Oven
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Microwave
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Cooling rack
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Stove
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Medium glass bowl
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Large mixing bowl
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Small bowl
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Round pan - 8"
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Saucepan
Step preview
- Prepare 2 clean round pans
- Pre-heat the oven - 175°C
- Add egg to a clean large mixing bowl and whisk until frothy
- Add granulated sugar to the batter and whisk until thick
- Add all purpose flour and cocoa powder to the batter and fold together until blended
- Add dark chocolate to a clean medium glass bowl
- Melt in microwave until smooth
- Fold chocolate mixture into batter
- Transfer batter to 2 round pans
- Bake until skewer tests clean - 20 min, 175°C
- Let cool - 5 min
- Turn out onto cooling rack
- Drizzle with kirsch
- Add heavy cream to a clean large mixing bowl
- Whisk until soft peaks form
- Add mascarpone cheese, vanilla bean pod and dark chocolate to the cream
- Mix until combined
- Add canned morello cherries to a clean small bowl
- Spread cream with 2 cake
- Add fruit to 2 cake
- Assemble
- Add dark chocolate to a clean medium glass bowl
- Add heavy cream to a clean saucepan
- Heat
- Pour cream into glaze and whisk glaze together until smooth
- Spread glaze with 2 cake and garnish with cherries