Schwarzwald cake

8 servings
5 hours

The Black Forest cherry cake is probably the world's most famous recipe for German cuisine. One of the Baek about its origin says that it resembles the national clothes of residents of some settlements of the Black Forest: a dress black like chocolate; white, like cream, blouse; and red "cherries" on the hat. In any case, back in the 19th century, in the Black Forest, a region in southwestern Germany famous for its dark spruce forests and plantations of a certain variety of cherries, there was a dessert of cherries soaked in the local cherry schnapse, served with whipped cream. And in the early twentieth century, a chocolate sponge cake soaked in cherry schnapps appeared, with cherries and whipped cream (or white butter cream).

A few words about ingredients. The cream in the photo is present purely symbolically - they must be in the refrigerator until the start of whipping. And the chocolate bar lies larger than indicated in the recipe - 1 fragment will go into the dough for the bark, but I will line the chocolate chips for the decor from the back surface of the other three, so the chips are more beautiful. If someone does not have the opportunity to flatten the chips - you can take just granules for sprinkling

Set the oven to heat up to 180C. In a water bath, melt the oil and 50 grams of crushed chocolate

Whisk eggs with sugar into light foam

Sift the flour, stir it into the egg-sugar mass

Introduce chocolate into the dough and melted with butter.

Oil the bottom of the mold and sprinkle with flour (I have a 16 cm shape)

Pour the dough into the tin and bake it in the oven on average at 160-180 degrees 20 minutes. After that, prick the surface with toothpicks to prevent it from tearing and bake for a further 10 minutes until cooked through.

Divide the cherry compote into juice and cherries (both will be required).

Add 2 bags of thickener to the cherry juice.

Cook the juice with the thickener according to the instructions on the bag, after cooking, immediately pour the cherries there and mix.

Remove the cake base from the oven and leave to cool completely. Depending on the diameter of the mold (and the height of the resulting baking), cut into 2-3 cakes and drip cherry schnapps (or other alcoholic impregnation) on each of them. Who does not want to inject alcohol - do not inject, although according to the recipe it is in the CLASSIC Black Forest cherry cake.

Distribute the cherry mass onto the cakes.

Whisk the cream until very dense

Put a layer of cream on top of the first cake with cherries, put the second on it, on top of the cherry layer - creamy again.

& quot; Installed & quot; coat the cake with cream on all sides.

Scrape the chocolate chips in small portions and sprinkle them over the cake. The top of the cake MUST be covered, this is a feature of the Schwarzwelder. Sprinkling the side surfaces is more difficult, this may not be done. On the outer edge of the top of the cake, rings or roses are squeezed out of cream (nozzle & quot; asterisk & quot;), in the middle of which you can stick cherries for beauty.