This Black Forest cake recipe will yield a soft and moist cake you’ll surely love. You can make this for any occasion. Gift this as a birthday cake, or simply make this as dessert at home.

Black Forest cake is special to me since this is the cake we chose as our wedding cake. Twenty-three years, later this is still one of my most favorite cakes.

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Baking is different from our daily cooking since baking entails a thorough and accurate measurement in order for great outcomes. Skip a certain part or, miss adding the baking soda and you’ll be certain that your cake will be as flat as tortilla; so when I am baking I always follow a certain routines and they are as follows:

Prepare the ingredients ahead of time.
Measure the ingredients accurately.
Make sure the oven is at the right temperature.
Line your pan with parchment paper and add a bit of oil so that the paper will not move when you pour the batter.
And lastly, preheat your oven as required in this recipe.

How do you make Black Forest Cake?

Place flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl. Mix and set aside.
In a small saucepan, add in the cocoa powder, butter, and water. Melt but in low heat and when melted, add into the dry ingredients mixture.
Mix until incorporated and add in the buttermilk and egg. Mix until there are no lumps.
Pour batter into the prepared pans and bake in a preheated oven for 35-40 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean.
Let cool for about 10 minutes and scrape the cake using a knife and continue to cool down in a cake rack.
When ready, divide the cake using a bread knife and frost with whipping cream.

Black Forest Cake

This Black Forest cake recipe will yield a soft and moist cake you'll surely love. You can make this for any occasion. Gift this as a birthday cake, or simply make this as dessert at home.

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Course: DESSSERT

Cuisine: American

Keyword: black forest cake

Prep Time: 20

Cook Time: 40

Total Time: 1

Servings: SLICES

Author: Shobee

Ingredients

1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
½ cup unsalted butter
½ cup water
3 tbsps unsweetened cocoa powder
1 egg
¼ cup buttermilk see notes below
¾ tsp vanilla

FILLING:

maraschino cherry stemmed
maraschino cherry finely chopped
Whipped Cream
2-3 bars Baker's Chocolate Bar shaved chocolate

FOR THE WHIP CREAM FROSTING ( DOUBLE OR TRIPLE THIS RECIPE TO FROST THE CAKE, SO YOU NEED ABOUT 1 QUART OR 32 FL OZ OF WHIPPING CREAM )

1 pint Heavy Whipping Cream
1/2 cup granulated sugar

Instructions

Grease a lightly grease 6 " or 8 X 1½ baking pan. In a mixer bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
Pre heat oven at 350 F. In a saucepan, combine butter, water and cocoa powder. Bring to just boiling and stir constantly. Remove from heat and add cocoa mixture to flour mixture; beat with electric mixer on slow speed until just combined. Add egg, buttermilk and vanilla; beat on low speed for 1 minute. Turn batter into the prepared pans and bake until toothpick inserted in the center will come out clean .I usually start checking at 25 minutes from the start of baking process. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes and on the rack before frosting.
Divide cake in the middle and put whipped cream and top with cherry. Spread filling and put the other half of the cake on top.

FOR THE WHIPPED CREAM FROSTING:

Put mixer bowl and whisk in a freezer for few minutes so that it will be cold, when the mixing bowl is ready , pour in heavy cream and mix on high speed. Add the sugar little by little . And mix until stiff peak. Do not use plastic bowl and do not use greased bowl .
Take about 2 cups of the frosting refrigerate. When done frosting the cake and you are ready to decorate, put it into piping bag.

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Notes

TO MAKE BUTTER MILK:
Mix ¼ cup milk and 1 tsp vinegar

Remove 2 cups of the whipping cream and refrigerate it. This will be used for decorating.

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