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Black Forest Gateau

Name: How to cook Black Forest Gateau - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Aini Amin

Black Forest Gateau

Beautiful Easter cake to impress your guests Black forest gateau. It is also called Foret Noire is classic french entrement. Made with light Chocolate sponge, whipped Chantilly cream and cherries. This is the very basic and easy method of making black forest gateau or you can say black forest cake.

Ingredient

Food ration :

12 servings

Cooking time :

1 hour

Chocolate Genoise List

Eggs

120 g

Caster Sugar

100 g

Flour

12 g

Cornstarch

12 g

Unsweetened cocoa powder

Chantilly cream List

600 ml

Double cream

50 g

Icing sugar

1 tsp

Vanilla extract

Filling and Decoration List

1 can

Cherries (400 g)

1 tsp

Corn flour

1 tbsp

Sugar

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Preheat the oven at 350 F(180 C/Gas mark 4).Grease and line 2 eight inch round pans with parchment paper.

* Step 2

Sift flour, cornflour and unsweetened cocoa powder from list 1. Set a side.

* Step 3

Beat 4 room temperature eggs with 120 g caster sugar for almost 15 minutes or until triple in volume.

* Step 4

Sift the dry ingredients on it

* Step 5

Fold Lightly

* Step 6

Fill both the cake tins with equal amount of batter.

* Step 7

Bake in the preheated oven at 180 C for almost 13-15 minutes or until cake springs back when touch. Let them cool.

* Step 8

Now from cherry can take 1/2 cup juice. Let it boil with 1 tbsp sugar. Mix 1 tsp cornflour with some water and cook it with cherry juice few seconds.

* Step 9

Cut the cherries in half, mix with cooked cherry syrup. Let it cool. (I used half cherries from the can)

* Step 10

Now in a bowl take chilled cream with icing sugar and vanilla extract.

* Step 11

Beat until stiff.

* Step 12

Now assemble the gateau. Keep 1 cake on 8 inch board. Brush the cake with cherry juice from the can. (we used half cherry juice for cooking cherry syrup and now using half cherry juice for soaking the cake) Place some whipped cream on top of it.spread it equally with a pallet knife.Spread cooled cherries on it Cover with 2nd cake and press lightly. Soak this 2nd cake layer with remaining cherry juice from can. Put some whipped cream on top.