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Layering the chocolate cake with slightly sweetened whipped cream and homemade Sweet Cherry Pie Filling was the perfect dessert to end our celebration.ĭon’t let the fact that this dessert is made completely from scratch scare you away. Since I had been able to get some sweet cherries at the store the day before, I decided to re-make that beloved chocolate quinoa cake into something a little more spectacular – a Flourless Black Forest Cake. Last weekend was Father’s Day, and besides deciding that we would be enjoying a nice steak dinner at home, I hadn’t planned the full menu. So there’s proof – even if you’re not a fan of cooked quinoa, this cake is the exception.

They’re not big fans of it as a side dish. The kids also let me know that it was the only acceptable way for me to prepare quinoa. My family loved that cake so much, declaring that it was their favourite chocolate cake of all time. The recipe was slightly adapted from the popular Quinoa 365: The Everyday Superfood cookbook. If you want to leave it out, replace it with more cherry juice.This Flourless Black Forest Cake has layers of rich chocolate cake smothered in a slightly sweetened whipped cream, and drenched with my amazing homemade Sweet Cherry Pie Filling.Ī few years ago, I made an Amazing Gluten Free Chocolate Cake that didn’t use any special flours, but instead was made using cooked quinoa. Without it you’ll only get a subtle cherry flavor. If you’re looking for the classic recipe, I highly recommend using Kirsch because it gives the best cherry flavor. I like to use sour cherries, but sweet cherries work too. Also, the juice from the can adds more cherry flavor, and the cherries are already pitted and soft, so they don’t need to be cooked. I use canned cherries because it makes the process easier, and because they are available throughout the whole year unlike fresh cherries. If you find this part hard, you can grate chocolate using a microplane or vegetable peeler and cover only the top of the cake with chocolate. You can use store-bought ones, although they’re usually quite expensive.

Chocolate shavings – I used this method to make chocolate shavings.

Whipped cream – to frost the cake and layers.

The syrups makes the cake ultra moist – my favorite part of this recipe.

Cherry syrup to soak the cake layers, and cherries to add between the layers.

Chocolate cake – I bake the batter in two 8-inch pans, then cut each cake layer in half to get a total of 4 layers.

This is what you’ll need to make the most delicious and simple black cherry forest cake: Ingredients and How to Make Black Forest Cake The classic cake is decorated with chocolate and fresh cherries. This is an easy black forest cake recipe made with 4 layers of moist chocolate cake soaked in cherry syrup, cherries, and whipped cream. You won’t understand how good this is until you try it.

Ever since I tried it in Germany, I couldn’t stop eating it again and again. When I was a kid I was reluctant to try black forest cakes, thinking that cherries and chocolate was an odd combination, but boy was I wrong! Along with whipped cream, this is a delightful treat. This is my favorite recipe for German black forest cake for so many reasons: The chocolate layers are so moist, they will melt in your mouth, the combination of chocolate, cherries and soft whipped cream is to-die-for, and although it takes a few steps to make, each step is easy and simple to follow.