A special gateau is prepared for special occasions. A moist, succulent chocolate cake filled with sweet frosting and soaked in cherry juice, sounds too good to be true. Presenting eggless black forest cake, a special childhood favourite for many.
Eggless black forest cake has layers of sweet cherry pieces soaking in a cherry juice. The layers of cake has sweetened whipped cream with chocolate shavings on top. This is a beautiful ensemble of colours. It has the deep dark chocolate colour, white whipped cream and topped with deep red succulent fresh cherries.
This eggless black forest cake takes me to my childhood fantasy land where I imagined the land I live in to be made of eatables filled with my favourites. This definitely took a special place in that world!
For this eggless black forest cake I have used my eggless chocolate cake recipe. I have illustrated in detail on how to assemble the black forest cake. With beautiful fresh cherries, this cake is a keeper for the cherry season! Try other eggless cakes from FOI, eggless fruit and plum cake, eggless honey cake, eggless orange muffins, ice cream cake and so on. More eggless bakes, eggless banana bread, eggless chocolate brownies, dilpasand, cinnamon rolls etc.
- ½ Cup Glace cherries
- 1 Cup water
- ¼ Cup sugar
- 1½ Cups double cream/whipping cream
- 2 Tbsp icing sugar or powdered sugar
- Fresh Cherries with stems as required
- Dark Chocolate shavings/grated
- Sieve all the dry ingredients for basic chocolate cake
- Prepare chocolate cake as elaborated in detail in my chocolate cake recipe. Let them cool completely, keep aside
- Take the glaced cherries and chop them up roughly
- Add water and sugar into a saucepan and bring to light boil
- Add chopped cherries and make into a syrup, it does not have to be thick. Strain and let it cool
- In a bowl, take cold/chilled thick cream
- Add powdered/icing sugar
- With an electric hand beater, start whipping
- Whip until light stiff peaks are formed. Keep chilled until further use
- Now to assemble the cake, take one baked cake
- Make slight cuts radially from the centre but not too deep. This is just for the juices to get absorbed
- Now start spooning the cherry juice, allow the juices to be absorbed before adding on more
- Now add a big dollop of whipped cream on this base cake
- Start spreading with a palette knife or offset spatula
- Lightly smooth out the edges
- Next add the strained cherries from the cherry juice concoction
- Spread all over and it mixes with the cream
- Now carefully place the other cake on top
- Spoon over more cherry juice and let it abrorb
- Again add a big dollop of whipped cream
- Spread and smooth out the edges
- Grate some chocolate in the centre of the cake
- Sprinkle grated chocolate onto the sides of the cake, it does not have to be perfect
- Next fill the remaining whipped cream into a piping bag fitted with a star or flower tip
- Pipe beautiful flowers all over
- Place fresh cherries with their stems on top in between cream flowers
- Chill before serving, enjoy a big slice!
If you do not have a electric hand beater use a balloon whisk or hand beater to whisk the cream
Always make sure the cream is chilled to ensure it does not separate or turn into butter
Ensure cake and juice are all completely cool before starting to frost the cake. Or the cream will melt
Inverting the cake before gives a smooth finish to top as the base is always nice and flat
Eggless Black Forest Cake Stepwise:
Sieve all the dry ingredients for basic chocolate cake
Prepare chocolate cake as elaborated in detail in my chocolate cake recipe. Let them cool completely, keep aside
Take the glaced cherries and chop them up roughly
Add water and sugar into a saucepan and bring to light boil
Add chopped cherries and make into a syrup, it does not have to be thick. Strain and let it cool
In a bowl, take cold/chilled thick cream
Add powdered/icing sugar
With an electric hand beater, start whipping
Whip until light stiff peaks are formed. Keep chilled until further use
Now to assemble the cake, take one baked cake
Make slight cuts radially from the centre but not too deep. This is just for the juices to get absorbed
Now start spooning the cherry juice, allow the juices to be absorbed before adding on more
Now add a big dollop of whipped cream on this base cake
Start spreading with a palette knife or offset spatula
Lightly smooth out the edges
Next add the strained cherries from the cherry juice concoction
Spread all over and it mixes with the cream
Now carefully place the other cake on top
Spoon over more cherry juice and let it abrorb
Again add a big dollop of whipped cream
Spread and smooth out the edges
Grate some chocolate in the centre of the cake
Sprinkle grated chocolate onto the sides of the cake, it does not have to be perfect
Next fill the remaining whipped cream into a piping bag fitted with a star or flower tip
Pipe beautiful flowers all over
Place fresh cherries with their stems on top in between cream flowers
Chill before serving, enjoy a big slice!
