Blackforest Gateau
A yummy dessert baked at home!!
Ingredients
- 6 nos Eggs
- 150 gm Caster sugar
- 125 gm Self raising flour sifted
- 2 tbsp Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Butter for greasing
For the filling and topping:
- 1 1/4 kg Canned black cherries
- 2 1/2 gm Caster sugar to mix with cherries, if its not sweet
- 2 tbsp Cornflour
- 750 ml Double cream
Instructions
- Pre heat the oven to 180ªC. Grease and line a 30 cm diameter deep cake tin.
- Break the eggs into a mixing bowl, add the sugar and beat well for about 5 minutes until very light and fluffy.
- Carefully fold in the sifted flour and the cocoa powder.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared tin.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Turn out onto a wire rack and leave to cool.
- Drain the cans of cherries in a sieve set over a saucepan.
- Put the cherries in a bowl (add 50 g caster sugar if necessary).
- Heat the juice until it comes to the boil.
- While the juice is heating, put the cornflour in a small bowl and mix with a little water.
- Whisk the paste into the juice when it boils.
- Strain through a sieve onto the cherries.
- Cut the sponge(cake) in half horizontally.
- Sandwich the halves together with the whipped cream and half the cherries.
- Arrange the rest of the cherries on top.
- Decorate with whipped cream.
- :- An excellent dessert!!! :- Enjoy!!!!
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