Black Forest Cake Recipe

Step 1: Baking the Black Forest cake recipe takes separate time for cooking a chocolate cake, making chocolate trees, frosting and assembling

Step 2: Instruction for Chocolate cakeSift flour, baking powder and cocoa powder in a large and dry mixing bowl

Step 3: Keep aside

Step 4: In a separate mixing bowl, add sugar and butter and blend it with an electric blender till sugar dissolves

Step 5: Add one egg at a time and keep blending till it's smooth and creamy

Step 6: Now pour in some vanilla extract and give a quick mix again

Step 7: Take the dry ingredient mix and start adding into the wet ingredient mix gradually

Step 8: Add thick curd and fold in with a spatula to make a clean and smooth batter (Do not beat or whisk the batter)

Step 9: Preheat the oven at 180 degree C for 10-15 minutes

Step 10: Meanwhile grease and dust a baking pan and pour in the batter

Step 11: Tap the cake pan on the counter to break and settle the air bubbles formed

Step 12: Place the pan inside the oven and bake it for 35-40 minutes or till the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean

Step 13: Transfer the cake on a wire rack and allow it to cool down completely

Step 14: Once the cake is cool, carefully remove it from the pan and cling wrap it

Step 15: Keep the wrapped cake in a dry and cool place till you prepare the frosting

Step 16: Instruction for Chocolate TreesOn an A4 size sheet, draw the sketch of a tree measuring the correct height required according to the cake

Step 17: Take a butter paper of a little larger/equal size and fix it over the sketch with a tape

Step 18: Add melted chocolate in a piping bag and cut off the tip to make a small opening

Step 19: Now make chocolate tree stencil over the sketch

Step 20: Refrigerate the butter paper for almost an hour so that the tress become hard nicely

Step 21: Instruction for FrostingIn a large mixing bowl, take heavy cream/ whipping cream and add icing sugar to it

Step 22: With and electric blender whip the cream till soft peak appears

Step 23: Refrigerate the whipped cream for 10 mins

Step 24: Meanwhile take the chocolate cake prepared, remove the cling foil

Step 25: Take a sharp serrated knife and slice the cake horizontally into two half

Step 26: If you are skilled, you can make three slices too like I did

Step 27: Keep all the three slices separate

Step 28: In a bowl, add 4 tablespoons of icing sugar in half a cup of water and stir to make a sweet solution

Step 29: Brush the cake slices top with this sweet solution generously

Step 30: This will keep the cake moist from inside

Step 31: Now carefully place the first slice on the turntable

Step 32: Brush some cherry compote all over the top

Step 33: With a clean spatula spread some whipped cream over the compote and spread chopped cherries over it

Step 34: Place the second slice on top and repeat the same

Step 35: Now place the final third slice on it and press gently with your palm

Step 36: Now take whipped cream generously and apply all over the cake to cover it from top and sides

Step 37: Do this till you get a smooth finish

Step 38: Add some whipped cream in a disposable piping bag and make rosettes on the top border

Step 39: Sprinkle chocolate shavings inside the rosette circle and place some cherries and white chocolate chips all over

Step 40: Take out the chocolate tres from the fridge and place them on the sides by carefully pressing them with the cream to attach properly

Step 41: Sprinkle some chocolate chips on the bottom to cover the gap between the tree roots

Step 42: Refrigerate the cake for minimum 2 hours before serving

Step 43: Serve this delicious Black Forest Cake at your next party!