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Black Forest gateau.

You can have Black Forest gateau using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Black Forest gateau

1. Prepare 175 g of salted butter.
2. You need 200 g of dark chocolate bar.
3. Prepare 300 g of plain flour.
4. It's 375 g of golden caster sugar.
5. Prepare 25 g of cocoa.
6. Prepare 1 teaspoon of baking soda.
7. You need 2 of medium eggs.
8. Prepare 200 g of buttermilk or natural yoghurt.
9. It's of To assemble.
10. It's 435 g of can pitted cherries, 2 tablespoon juice reserved.
11. It's 100 g of cherry jam.
12. You need 4 tablespoon of kirsch (or more juice from a can of you want it to be non-alcoholic).
13. You need 500 ml of tub double cream.
14. Prepare 3 tablespoon of icing sugar.
15. You need 1 of small punnet small cherries (optional).

Black Forest gateau instructions

1. Heat the oven to 180C. Grease and line the base of cake tins. Boil the kettle. Put the butter and 75g chocolate broken into chunks in a small pan and gently heat, stirring, until completely melted..
2. Mix together the flour, sugar, cocoa and baking soda with a pinch of salt in a mixing bowl. Whisk the eggs and buttermilk or yogurt together. Scrape the melted chocolate mixture and egg mixture into the dry ingredients, add 100ml boiling water and whisk briefly with an electric whisk until the cake batter has no lumps..
3. Divide the mixture between the tins and bake for 25 mins, swapping the tins round after 20 mins if they’re on different shelves. To test they're done, push in a skewer and check that it comes out clean..
4. Prick the cakes a few times with a skewer. Mix together the 2 tbsp reserved cherry juice and the kirsch (or more juice) and drizzle over the cakes. Cool the cakes..
5. Mix together the remaining drained cherries and jam. Tip 200ml of the cream into a small pan and heat until just below simmering point. Chop the remaining chocolate and put in a heatproof bowl, pour over the hot cream and stir until melted. Set aside until spreadable..
6. When the cakes are cool whisk the remaining cream and the icing sugar together until softly whipped. Spread over two of the cakes, then spoon over the jammy cherries. Stack the cakes together. Spread the chocolate cream over the third cake and sit on top of the other cakes. Pile the fresh cherries in and around the cake and serve..
7. Enjoy!.