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Vegetarian

Black Forest gateau

Name: Black Forest gateau
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 700 ml Schlagobers; 400 g Weichselkompott; 6 Ei; 300 g Kochschokolade; ½ Pkg Vanillepudding; 250 ml Milch; 150 g Kirschenmarmelade; 120 g Butter; 120 g Zucker; 120 g Mehl; 1 Pkg Vanillezucker; Salz; Vanillepudding

Seasonality: 0%.

Ingredients for 12 slices: 700 ml Whipping cream, 400 g Sour cherry compote, 6 eggs, 300 g Cooking chocolate, ½ packages Pudding powder, 250 ml Milk, 150 g Cherry jam, 120 g Butter, 120 g Sugar, 120 g Flour, 1 package Vanilla sugar, Salt, Vanilla pudding

Nutrition per serving View details

Carbohydrates: 35 g Protein: 9 g Fat: 41 g Fiber: 1 g

Energy: 537 kcal (2,247 kJ)

Preparation of Black Forest gateau

Chocolate biscuit

6 eggs
12 dag Butter
12 dag Sugar
12 dag Flour
10 dag Cooking chocolate
1 package Vanilla sugar
Prise Salt

Disconnect 6 eggs. 10 dag Cooking chocolate melt. Bring 12 dag Butter to room temperature and stir with 6 dag Sugar until frothy. Stir in the chocolate and egg yolks. Beat the egg whites with 6 dag Sugar, 1 package Vanilla sugar and Prise Salt until stiff. Fold the snow into the butter-chocolate mixture. Carefully fold in 12 dag Flour.

Bake sponge cake

Pour the dough into a greased and floured cake tin (26 cm). Bake at 180 C for approx. 20 minutes. Remove the sponge cake from the tin and leave to cool. Cut the sponge cake in half into two slices. Place the first biscuit slice back into the mold.

Parisian cream

15 dag Cooking chocolate
150 ml Whipping cream

15 dag Cooking chocolate cut small. Bring 150 ml Whipping cream to the boil, add the chocolate pieces. Cook briefly while stirring. Set to cold. Stir the cooled Parisian cream until frothy.

Sour cherry pudding

400 g Sour cherry compote
Vanilla pudding

Strain 400 g Sour cherry compote (from pitted sour cherries). Prepare a pudding from the compote juice with Vanilla pudding. Adjust the amount of custard powder to the amount of juice. Save 12 sour cherries for the decoration. Add the remaining sour cherries to the hot pudding. Allow to cool.

Pudding cream

300 ml Whipping cream
½ packages Pudding powder
¼ L Milk
Water

Prepare a pudding from ½ packages Pudding powder and ¼ L Milk (according to package instructions). Stir a few times during cooling. Beat the pudding with a mixer until frothy. Beat 300 ml Whipping cream. Soak cold Water. Squeeze out the soft gelatine leaves and dissolve in 2 tablespoons of hot kirsch. Stir the dissolved gelatine into the pudding very quickly and fold in the whipped cream.

First filling

15 dag Cherry jam

Spread 15 dag Cherry jam on the first biscuit slice and top with the Parisian cream. Place the second biscuit slice on top and chill.

Second filling

Place a 10 cm high strip of baking paper between the sponge and the cake ring. Spread the sour cherry pudding on the second slice of sponge cake. Spread the custard over the sour cherry pudding. Set to cold.

Decorate

250 ml Whipping cream
50 g Cooking chocolate

When the custard is firm, the baking paper ring and ring mold can be removed. Beat 250 ml Whipping cream until stiff. Spread the top and sides of the cake with some of the whipped cream. Scrape or plane chips from 50 g Cooking chocolate with a knife. Sprinkle the top and sides of the cake with the chocolate shavings. Using a piping bag and a piping nozzle, pipe rosettes of the remaining whipped cream onto the edge of the Black Forest gateau. Place sour cherries on each of the rosettes.

Created and tested by Martin Schlagnitweit – seasonal cook, web developer and vegetable grower.

Martin Schlagnitweit

Black Forest gateau photos

The chocolate biscuit base for the Black Forest gateau

Sour cherry mixture made from sour cherry compote

Beat the Parisian cream until frothy

Spread the cherry jam on the first sponge base

Spread the Parisian cream over the jam

Stir the gelatine into the custard cream

Spread the custard cream over the sour cherry pudding

Decorating the Black Forest gateau

The finished Black Forest gateau, cut.

Nutrition per serving

Reference amount: 1 serving

Composition

Carbohydrates 42% Protein 11% Fat 49% Fiber 1.2%

Carbohydrates: 35 g
Protein: 9 g
Fat: 41 g
Fiber: 1 g

Energy

537 kcal

2,247 kJ

Questions about Black Forest gateau

How many kcal does Black Forest gateau have?: One serving of Black Forest gateau provides 537 kcal.
How many carbs does Black Forest gateau contain?: One serving of Black Forest gateau contains 35 g of carbs.
How much protein does Black Forest gateau contain?: One serving of Black Forest gateau contains 9 g of protein.
How much fat does Black Forest gateau contain?: One serving of Black Forest gateau contains 41 g of fat.
How much fiber does Black Forest gateau contain?: One serving of Black Forest gateau contains 1 g of fiber.