Black Forest Cake Reimagined 🍒🍫 Easy recipe for home

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Black Forest Cherry Cake with a fresh look 🍒🍫 A simple at-home recipe
Rich, velvety chocolate cake with cherry filling and chocolate cream cheese frosting 🍒🍫
Moist chocolate sponge, delicious cherry filling, and creamy frosting—the perfect combination! This cake is relatively easy to make, visually stunning, and incredibly tempting.

Ingredients:
🍫 Chocolate sponge cake:
160 g all-purpose flour (Type 405).
40 g cocoa powder.
6 g baking powder.
Mix these dry ingredients together.
4 eggs.
200 g sugar.
Beat for about 5 minutes until light and fluffy.
Sift in half of the dry ingredient mixture.
Fold carefully from bottom to top to preserve the fluffiness of the eggs.
Sift in the remaining dry ingredients and gently mix until combined.
100 ml vegetable oil.
Mix gently until a smooth batter forms.
Use a 20 cm round cake pan with a removable bottom.
Bake at 170–175°C for about 36–40 minutes. Test with a toothpick.
Let cool for 10 minutes.
Remove from the pan and let the cake cool completely at room temperature.
Level the top and slice the cake into 3 even layers.

🍒 Cherry filling:
300 g pitted cherries.
60–120 g sugar (depending on the tartness of the cherries).
Bring to a boil.
30 ml water.
10 g cornstarch.
Mix until smooth.
Add the mixture to the cherries and cook, stirring constantly, until thickened.
10 g butter (optional).
Mix until smooth.
Let cool completely. ☕ Syrup for soaking the cake:
150 ml water.
10 g cocoa powder.
40 g sugar.
Bring all ingredients to a boil.
Then, let it cool to room temperature.
🍫 Chocolate cream cheese frosting:
480 g cream cheese.
40 g cocoa powder.
140 g powdered sugar.
100 ml heavy cream (33–36% fat).
All ingredients must be thoroughly chilled.
Whip all ingredients together until the mixture becomes thick and smooth.
Refrigerate the cake for a few hours.

🎂 For decoration:
Chocolate ganache: 100 g dark chocolate + 100 ml hot heavy cream (33–36% fat). Mix well.
Chocolate shavings.
Canned cherries.
See you again on the dessert channel! Delicious! 🫶