![]() In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat 6 large eggs, at room temperature, ¾ cup (148 g) superfine sugar, and 1 tsp. kosher salt onto a sheet of parchment paper and set aside. Sift ½ cup (60g) unbleached all-purpose flour, ¼ cup (21 g) Dutch-process cocoa powder, and ¼ tsp. Butter and flour a 10" cake pan that is 3" deep such as a springform mold. Place the rack in the center of the oven. This recipe was excerpted from ‘Souvenirs’ by Hubert Keller. If you’d prefer to make this cake without alcohol, choose sour cherries in 100% cherry juice and use the strained liquid instead of the liqueur and water in the cherry syrup. Outside of cherry season, he says you can use frozen cherries-or shop for jarred or canned sour cherries (look for Morello or Amarena cherries steer clear of candy red maraschino cherries). Keller uses kirsch two ways: to preserve the sour cherries that get sandwiched between the cake layers and in the syrup he uses to soak them. A good Black Forest cake should be very moist and have a distinct flavor of kirsch, a cherry liqueur native to Germany’s Black Forest region, so be sure to use a good-quality spirit. Its airy texture comes not from leavening agents, like baking soda or baking powder, but by whipping whole eggs with sugar and vanilla until voluminous before folding in the dry ingredients.Īs with many fancy desserts, says legendary pastry chef Hubert Keller, the assembly for this German cake is easy it just takes a lot of words to describe. Whatever its provenance, the perennial favorite is traditionally made with a chocolate sponge cake batter. ![]() ![]() Others say Josef Keller, a pastry chef in Bad Godesberg, penned the world’s first Black Forest cake recipe in 1915. Some corners of the internet claim the German dessert, also called Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, has been around since at least the 16th century-an unlikely theory since chocolate wasn’t readily available in Germany until the early 1600s, and at the time was primarily used as a medicine. As with most recipes steeped in history (and booze), there are a few Black Forest cake origin stories. ![]()
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