Black Forest Cake

FOr the cake 

1 tbsp of instant coffee

1 1/4 cup hot water

1 cup dutch process cocoa

2 1/2 cup all purpose flour

1 1/4 tsp salt

2 1/2 tsp baking soda

2 cups sugar

3 large egg

1 1/4 cup sour cream

1 cup +2 tbsp vegetable oil

optional 

block of chocolate for chocolate shaving

marachino cherries for decoration 

Preheat oven at 170 deg Celcius 

Line and grease 2, 8x3  round cake pan

Combine hot water , instant coffee and the cocoa powder mix until there is no more lumps of cocoa powder. Set aside. 

Combine flour , baking soda and salt mix and then sift . Set aside.

Beat the eggs and sugar until light and pale yellow beat it for about 3-5  minutes. 

Add the sourcream into the eggyolk mixture, mix and then add the oil. Occasionally scrape down the sides of the bowl to ensure that everything is getting incorporated. 

Add in the flour mixture all at once  mix until just combined ( please do not overmix)

Finally add the cocoa hot water mixture . 

Transfer the cake batter into the prepared greased pan and bake in a preheated oven at 170 deg C for about 55-60 minutes or until when you insert a toothpick in the middle of the cake and the toothpick comesout clean. 

Let it cool down completly. 

*****while you are baking the cake  its time to prepare the othe components of the cake*********

1 bar of 200 g of chocoalte

Using a potato peeler  run it into a bar of chocolate to create chocolate shavings we will use this to decorate the top and side of the cake. Set aside. 

For the Cherry Pie Filling

For the Cherrypie FIlling

1 jar 670g of Pitted cherry

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup corn starch

1 tsp vanilla

Combine all the ingridients except for the vanilla. Cook over a medium heat in the stove. 

You know that the filling is ready when the liquid becomes translucent.

Add the vanilla just before turning of the heat.  

Cool down completly.

For the whipping cream 

3 cups of whipping cream or thickened cream

1/2 cup of icing sugar

Just beat all the ingridients using electric mixer until stiff peaks. 

To assemble the cake

Cut each cake into 2 to giving us 4 layers

 You will need a cake board  to assemble the cake.

Place 1 layer of cake on a cake board, spread cream then top it with cherry pie filling,then add another layer of cake on top  repeat the process  with every layer ,then on the last layer cover the entire cake with cream , then smooth it out using spatula

 Finally add the chocolate shaving on top and side of the cake.

In the video I  use wilton 2d to pipe rossettes on top side of the cake and top each rossettes with marraschino cheeries. Decorating part is up to you :D