Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Black Forest Cake

Black Forest Cake.

You can have Black Forest Cake using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Black Forest Cake

1. You need of <Chocolate Cake Ingredients>.
2. It's 1 of & 1/3 cups Self Raising Flour.
3. Prepare 1 teaspoon of BC Soda.
4. You need 1/3 cup of Cocoa Powder.
5. Prepare 1 cup of Sugar.
6. Prepare 1 cup of Butter Milk.
7. You need 125 g of Butter *melted.
8. It's 2 of Eggs.
9. It's 1 teaspoon of Vanilla Extract.
10. It's of <Filling & Decoration>.
11. You need 600-800 g of Pitted Dark Cherries (Tinned OR Jarred).
12. Prepare 400-600 ml of Thickened Cream.
13. Prepare 2 tablespoons of Kirsch.
14. You need of Dark Chocolate *shaved OR grated.

Black Forest Cake step by step

1. Bake a chocolate cake 18cm OR 20cm in diameter. My ‘Super Easy Chocolate Cake’ recipe can be found here. (http://www.hirokoliston.com/super-easy-chocolate-cake/) Turn onto a wire rack to cool completely, then cut horizontally into 2 or 3 layers using a large serrated knife..
2. Drain the pitted cherries, reserving 1/4 cup of the juice. Reserve 12 good-looking cherries for decoration..
3. Use an electric beater or a whisk to beat cream in a large bowl until firm peaks form. *Note: You may wish to add 1 tablespoon Caster Sugar to the cream before beating. I always add NO sugar to the cream..
4. Mix reserved cherry juice and Kirsch in a small bowl..
5. Place 1st layer of cake on a serving plate and drizzle over the kirsch mixture. Spread the cream and arrange the cherries evenly. Repeat if you have three layers. Then finish with the top layer of the cake..
6. Spread some cream over the top (and side of the cake if you wish). Decorate the cake with the remaining cream, cherries and shaved dark chocolate..