Foret Noire - second recipe (including photos)

Ingredients for one layer (you need to bake two layers):

• 2 eggs
• 50 grams of sugar
• 20 grams of almond powder
• 20 grams of flour
• 2 spoons with cocoa powder
• salt

Separate the egg yolks from the whites.

Beat the egg yolks with half of the sugar and the egg whites with the remaining sugar.

Mix the egg whites with the egg yolks, the cocoa powder, the almond powder, the flour and the salt.

Bake the layer at 180 Celsius degrees for 11-13 minutes.

Ingredients for the filling:

• 500 grams of sour cherry jelly (we buy it as "kirschgrütze" in Germany)
• 700 grams of cream

After the layers have cooled down, assembly the cake on a plate.

Add one layer then add the cherry jelly, then half of the cream.

Add another layer and on top add the remaining cream. You can decorate with grated chocolate and some sour cherries.

Enjoy!

Black forest cake - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 450 milliliters of milk
• 200 grams of flour
• 200 grams of sugar
• 50 grams of cocoa powder
• 40 milligrams of sunflower oil
• 1 pack of baking powder
• a small jar of cherry jelly

Mix the flour with the sugar, the cocoa powder and the baking powder.

Pour the milk and the sunflower oil over the flour composition and mix slowly until well incorporated.

Put it in the oven at 160 degrees Celsius for 25-30 minutes.

Let it cool, then slice it in two layers.

Add the cherry jelly over the first layer. 

For the cream, we've beaten well with a mixer all the ingredients below:

• 350 grams of fresh cream
• 3 spoons of sugar
• 2 packets of vanilla sugar
• 1 spoon zest from a lemon

Add the cream over the cherries.

Add the second layer of the cake.
Cover it with the remaining cream.

On top we used the same cherry jelly, but you can use fresh cherries and chocolate.

Enjoy!