This is my first fault line cake. I would definitely love to do more of it. Let me know if you guys want to see any different flavors and designs. I would love to try them out.
Black Forest Cake is the first bakery cake that I had tried in my school days and have loved it since then. Any bakery we visit, I would always order this cake. But since I got married and started baking on my own, I have prepared this multiple times at home and its a no fail recipe. This chocolate cake is the best you will ever try. Traditionally, vanilla whipped cream frosting is used. But because I decided to do a fault line cake, I chose buttercream frosting. Butter cream frosting is super easy to make and handle, especially with larger cakes like this one. If you would still love to do the traditional black forest cake you can refer here for the whipped cream recipe.
I just love fresh cherries and when they are in season why not make the use of it. Fresh cherries are used in the recipe. To make it look fancier, I have decorated the cake with chocolates chunks, fresh cherries and chocolate barks.
To make the barks - melt the chocolate, spread it on parchment paper. Place another parchment paper on top and roll it from shorter edge and keep it in fridge until you are ready to decorate the cake and then unroll. Make sure you place them on the cake as soon as you remove from fridge as this will melt easily at room temperature. All the gold decorations that you see are using edible gold paint. This is totally optional.
“I have prepared this for a big crowd and thus have doubled the recipe of what I have given below. The recipe below will give you a nice thick 2-layered- or thin 4-layered-cake. If you would love to make the cake like the one shown in this picture double all the ingredient amounts” Any doubts please comment and I would be happy to help. Follow me on Instagram and tag me with #cookwithkushi so that I get a chance to see all the recipes you make and give it a ♥.
Ingredients
For Chocolate Cake
2 cups All purpose flour 2 cups Sugar ¾ cup Cocoa powder 2 teaspoon Baking soda 1 teaspoon Baking powder 1 teaspoon Salt ½ cup Vegetable oil or Canola oil 2 Eggs 1 cup Whole milk 2 teaspoon Vanilla extract 1 teaspoon Instant coffee powder 1 cup Hot boiling water
For Sugar Cherry Syrup
¼ cup Sugar ½ cup Water ½ cup Cherries chopped
For Buttercream Frosting
4 Egg whites 16 oz Butter (salted or unsalted- 4 sticks) 16 oz Powdered sugar (Confectioners sugar) ½ teaspoon Salt (only if using unsalted butter) 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
For decoration (optional)
20 Fresh Cherries 4 oz Chocolate bars broken Edible gold paint
For Chocolate Bark
150 g Good quality chocolate
How to make Black Forest Fault Line Cake With Buttercream Frosting
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