Black Forest Cake: A Chocolate Cake with a Twist

Black Forest Cake: A Chocolate Cake with a Twist Special days of our life come occasionally and hence we should make it special by gooey and fresh black forest cake. If you are a huge fan of gooey desserts then this cake is no exception and all age groups enjoy this. Originating from Germany also known as the black forest gateau in America is one of the fanciest and most loved cakes in the world.

What makes it so special?

The black forest cake is a combination of decent, sublime, and fresh taste, along with chocolate this cake has abundance of whipped cream, which gives it a fresh feeling. The Dutch chocolate and kirsch liqueur gives it a different taste altogether and is usually topped with fresh cherries, raspberries, blue berries and black currents sprinkled with castor sugar to give it a decent look. This cake can be easily made for holidays or gifts for friends and family for their birthdays, anniversaries or on their special days for making them feel special and loved. The Swedish version of this cake uses hazelnut meringue layers along with fresh whipped cream and dark chocolate to make equally tasty as its German version.

How to make it special The black forest cake usually consists of three dense layers of dark chocolate which are not too sweet are initially drenched kirsch syrup, topped with kirsch cherries and hazelnut meringue along with fluffy whipped cream frosting and dark chocolate ganache. Finally decorated with abundant cherries, raspberries, and blue berries and at last topped with icing sugar to give it an appetizing sight.

The cake is usually heavy on kirsch liqueur to give it the traditional German taste, but nowadays instead of kirsch syrup even apple juice or raspberry juice is used for drenching as normal fruit juice. But, as kirsch liqueur happens to be a brandy from the cherries, liqueurlike fruit flavored vodka or schnapps is also used to maintain the alcohol content in this dessert.

Now with kirsch syrup in mind, cherries are macerated and kept in the liqueur till they have swollen up with the flavor, now these alcohol infused cherries are kept in the mascarpone cream where the flavor swells up and seeps into fresh whipped cream frosting. Now this is carefully layered over the dark chocolate ganache one by one.

This black forest cake is simple to create, yet undertaking in time and deserves to be made perfectly and delicately. Here to get the authentic taste of cake kirsch liqueur is necessary as all the ingredients play vital role in making the cake. These ingredients have to be in a calculated and specific amount though a little extra of the chocolate ganache will not harm the taste of the cake.

So make this special cake with can be made in 30 minutes for your friend and loved ones to make them feel special.