Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Favorite Black Forest gateau

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, black forest gateau. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Black Forest gateau is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Black Forest gateau is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have black forest gateau using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Black Forest gateau:

1. Get 175 g salted butter
2. Prepare 200 g dark chocolate bar
3. Take 300 g plain flour
4. Take 375 g golden caster sugar
5. Take 25 g cocoa
6. Prepare 1 teaspoon baking soda
7. Prepare 2 medium eggs
8. Make ready 200 g buttermilk or natural yoghurt
9. Get To assemble
10. Make ready 435 g can pitted cherries, 2 tablespoon juice reserved
11. Prepare 100 g cherry jam
12. Take 4 tablespoon kirsch (or more juice from a can of you want it to be non-alcoholic)
13. Get 500 ml tub double cream
14. Prepare 3 tablespoon icing sugar
15. Prepare 1 small punnet small cherries (optional)

Instructions to make Black Forest gateau:

1. Heat the oven to 180C. Grease and line the base of cake tins. Boil the kettle. Put the butter and 75g chocolate broken into chunks in a small pan and gently heat, stirring, until completely melted.
2. Mix together the flour, sugar, cocoa and baking soda with a pinch of salt in a mixing bowl. Whisk the eggs and buttermilk or yogurt together. Scrape the melted chocolate mixture and egg mixture into the dry ingredients, add 100ml boiling water and whisk briefly with an electric whisk until the cake batter has no lumps.
3. Divide the mixture between the tins and bake for 25 mins, swapping the tins round after 20 mins if they’re on different shelves. To test they're done, push in a skewer and check that it comes out clean.
4. Prick the cakes a few times with a skewer. Mix together the 2 tbsp reserved cherry juice and the kirsch (or more juice) and drizzle over the cakes. Cool the cakes.
5. Mix together the remaining drained cherries and jam. Tip 200ml of the cream into a small pan and heat until just below simmering point. Chop the remaining chocolate and put in a heatproof bowl, pour over the hot cream and stir until melted. Set aside until spreadable.
6. When the cakes are cool whisk the remaining cream and the icing sugar together until softly whipped. Spread over two of the cakes, then spoon over the jammy cherries. Stack the cakes together. Spread the chocolate cream over the third cake and sit on top of the other cakes. Pile the fresh cherries in and around the cake and serve.
7. Enjoy!

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