![]() With the first pastry circle, I broke off the burnt parts, and ate the good parts as a snack. GRAR! Anyhow, here is the second, non-burnt pastry circle. And in fact, I burnt the edges of first one I made, and had to rapidly whip up a second one. Make sure you check at 10 minutes! Because the dough is so thin, it burns quite easily. Poke the dough all over with a fork, as below. I still don't have a rolling pin at the new place, so I simply tipped the mixture into the tin, and pressed it out to fit. Roll out to a 28cm circle, and place into a lined 28cm springform tin. Mix using a dough hook or paddle beater until combined. Add 50g sugar, 1 pack vanilla-sugar, 1 tbs kirsch and 75g softened butter. Sieve 125g plain flour with 10g cocoa and 1 tsp baking powder into a mixing bowl. and the party was at 7pm that night! I should totally have started earlier it would have saved me a lot of stress! I only managed to start baking at about 3:30pm. I'll show you all the individual components (with a recipe!), apart from the actual cake part, because it didn't turn out too well. ![]() And so the actual day came and I just had to wing it. The traditional cake includes a shortcrust pastry base, sour cherries, and most importantly, the whipped cream must include kirsch! Without the requisite cherry liquor, the cake won't taste right, and any Germans eating the cake to will be bitterly disappointed.īefore Thanh's birthday, I was planning on doing a trial run of the cake, but in the general confusion of moving house I somehow got the dates mixed up. Ta-dah! There are 3 main areas to which I'd like to draw your attention. Instead, here's a little something I whipped up on a post-it note: I was hoping to show y'all a cross-section of an actual piece of cake to show you what should be inside Black Forest cake, but unfortunately the cake got a little smooshed on the drive to Thanh's and the slices were super messy! Ultimately, I turned to my classic Dr Oetker Backen Macht Freudebook, as it was pretty much the only Rezepte I could find for a klassische Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. Not a pared-down, simplified version, not a trifle, not a cherry-flavoured chocolate biscuit! This also begs the question - why would anyone want to pare down the magnificence of this cake? But I wanted a properly German, traditional Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. I also found lots of random dessert recipes which somehow involved the choc-cherry combo. You know what I discovered? No-one makes Black Forest cake any more! Of the few recipes that I did find, most were deconstructed, modernised, adapted. I want a massive glorious black forest cake beautifully decorated and with kirsch and morello cherriesĮek! Well, I love a challenge almost as much as I love German cakes, and I quickly started looking up recipes and researching. ![]() Hey i know what cake i want for my bday present When I told Thanh that I'd bake him any cake he wanted as his birthday present, I thought I was taking the easy way out. The Black Forest Cake that I made 2 weeks ago. ![]()
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