


Add the sugar and mix well with the dry ingredients. In a large bowl, sieve the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. I used three 6" cake pans.Īdd a tbsp of instant coffee powder to the hot water and keep aside. Grease and flour two 9" cake pans or three 6" cake pans. 🙂 If you are planning on preparing sweet recipes for kids for a get together or birthday party, you should consider black forest cake.

Honestly, it is way better than the store bought cake even though I do not make the authentic genoise that Black forest cake calls for. Family and friends rave about the black forest cake I make at home. The black forest cake that I have eaten and know of has 3 to 4 layers of chocolate cake, with whipped cream and maraschino cherries between each layer, topped with whipped cream and decorated with cherries and grated chocolate or chocolate shards. In India most bakeries that offer black forest on the menu replace the Kirsch liqueur with tinned cherry syrup. The authentic black forest is a multiple chocolate genoise layer cake which is soaked in Kirschwasser liqueur (a clear liqueur distilled from cherries) and covered with whipped cream and cherry filling. In India, its popular as black forest pastry, in the US, as black forest and in the UK, as black forest gateau. It is known by different names in different parts of the world. The original name of this popular German dessert is Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte aka Black Forest cherry torte.
