How to Make Gordon Ramsay Black Forest Cake

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, black forest cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Black Forest Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Black Forest Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have black forest cake using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake:

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

Instructions to make Black Forest Cake:

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.

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