Black Forest Cherry Torte

Black Forest Cherry Torte


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175 gr salted butter or unsalted with a pinch of salt
200 gr dark chocolate 69% cocoa solids
300 gr plain flour
375 gr golden caster sugar
25 gr cocoa powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
2 medium eggs
200 gr buttermilk or natural yoghurt

To put it all together:

425 gr can or glass pitted cherries, 2 tablespoons reserved, rest drained
100 gr morello (if you can get it) cherry jam
4 tablespoons kirsch (optionional)
500 ml tub double cream
3 tablespoons icing sugar
a basket of cherries

Preheat your oven to 180C. and grease or spray and line 3- 20cm round cake tins or springforms.
Put the kettle on. Put the butter in pieces and 75 gr of the chocolate broken into pieces into a small pan and gently heat it, stirring, completely melting together.

Then you mix the flour, sugar, cocoa and bicarb with a pinch of salt in one of your mixing bowls. Whisk the 2 eggs and the buttermilk or the yoghurt together. Scrape the melted chocolate out of your pan and the egg mixture into the dry ingredients. Add 100ml of boiling water and quickly use your electric whisk until the mixture is without clumps and lumps.

Divide the mixture between the 3 prepared tins and bake for 25 minutes. Use your caketester to see if they are done. Prick the cakes a few times as you will want to drizzle them with the 2 tablespoons of the reserved cherry juice and the Kirsch (optional). Then you let the cakes cool off, turn out, and let them cool off further onto your wire rack.

In another bowl you mix the drained cherries with the jam and give it a good stir. Pour 200 ml of the double cream into a small pan and heat it on your hob until just below simmering point. Put the remaining chocolate, chopped into pieces, into a heatproof bowl. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and keep stirring until it is all melted. Put it away until it is more spreadable. (Nutella like).

When your 3 cakes have totally cooled, whisk the remaining double cream and the icing sugar together in a bowl until softly whipped. Spread this over 2 of the cakes. Then you can spoon the JamCherries over the cream and stack the 2 cakes together.
Now you can spread the chocolate cream over the 3rd and last cake and put it on top of the other cakes.

Put a little mountain of the fresh cherries in and around the cake.
 

                                                             "Enjoy"