Culinary Institute of America

Black Forest Cake

Preparation info
  • Makes 1 cake ( 8 in 20 cm ),

    10

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
top 1000Baking & Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft
Baking & Pastry

By Culinary Institute of America

Published 2015

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Ingredients

Ingredient U.S. Metric
Chocolate Sponge, 8-in/20-cm round

Method

  1. Slice three even layers from the sponge, between ¼ and ½ in/0.6 cm and 1 cm thick. Place one layer on an 8-in/20-cm cardboard cake round and moisten with simple syrup.
  2. Using a pastry bag fitted with a #5 plain tip, pipe a ring of whipped ganache around the outer edge of the cake layer; then, leaving a gap of approximately 2 in/5 cm, pipe a circle of the ganache