Description
A not-too-sweet and extra chocolatey black forest cake with light and soft chocolate sponge cake, cherries, Chantilly whipped cream and chocolate ganache.
Ingredients
Scale
- 8 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar (200g)
- 1 cup all purpose flour (130g)
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder (50g)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 14 oz cans or jars of pitted cherries in syrup
- 3 cups of heavy whipping cream, chilled (720g)
- 1/4 cup sugar (50g)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 240g semi sweet chocolate
- 1 cup heavy cream (240g)
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350F and prepare 4 8″ round cake pans by placing parchment paper on the bottom.
- Add the eggs and sugar to the bowl of your stand mixer and whisk on medium high speed for 5-7 minutes until the mixture is pale, thick and fluffy.
- Sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
- Gently fold the dry ingredients into the wet until no streaks of flour remain.
- Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let the cakes cool in the pans for 20 minutes, then cool fully outside.
- Drain the cherries and reserve the juice in a saucepan.
- Save a handful of cherries for decoration and chop the rest roughly.
- Cool the cherry juice for 3-5 minutes, then let it cool fully.
- Add the cold heavy cream, sugar, salt and vanilla to a bowl. Whisk until medium peaks form.
- Melt the chocolate and cream in a microwave-safe bowl in 20-second increments until smooth.
- Assemble the cake by layering with cherry syrup, whipped cream, chopped cherries, and ganache.
- Repeat with the next layers and frost with whipped cream.
- Chill the cake for 15 minutes.
- Warm the ganache and pour it over the cake, letting it drip down the sides.
- Pipe dollops of whipped cream around the edge and top with reserved cherries and chocolate shavings.
- Serve & enjoy!
Notes
- You can use any type of cherries you prefer.
- Make sure the eggs are at room temperature for the best results.
- Do not over bake the cake layers.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: German
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 450
- Sugar: 30g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 25g
- Saturated Fat: 15g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 50g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 6g
- Cholesterol: 100mg
Keywords: black forest cake, chocolate cake, dessert, baking