Blackforest cake recipe

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  • Cuisine: French
  • Serves 10

Ingredients

Syrup
120 ml water
120 g caster sugar
40 ml kirsch
500 ml cream
100 g icing sugar
a chocolate sponge cake, about 24 cm diameter
80 g cherry or berry jam
About 120 g preserved cherries in brandy
250 g chocolate flakes
A little icing sugar for dusting

Preparation

Bring the water and sugar to the boil in a saucepan and simmer for 5 minutes. Add kirsch to this syrup.

Beat cream and icing sugar until firm.

Cut sponge into three equal layers. Lightly brush one layer with kirsch syrup then spread with jam. Top with a second layer of sponge and lightly brush with syrup.

Spread this second layer with about 1 1/2 cups whipped cream and top with preserved cherries, except for 10 cherries which will be used for garnishing.

Add the third layer of sponge. Spread cream on this layer and all around the cake, smoothing as much as possible.

Pat chocolate flakes around and on top of the cake.

Using a piping bag fitted with a serrated nozzle, pipe 10 rosettes of cream on top of cake.

Place a cherry on each cream rosette and dust with a little icing sugar.
Refrigerate cake until 15 minutes before serving.


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Comments (1)

   
23 Dec 2010 08:35 AEST
sneha
brisbane
lovely and yummy
it was a lovely cake..
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