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- From: dartji@gdss.grumman.com (Jim Dart !!!)
- Subject: Black Forest Cake
- Message-ID: <Cs1zoJ.9Ft@gdss.grumman.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 03:08:49 GMT
- Reply-To: dartji@gdss.grumman.com (Jim Dart !!!)
- Organization: Grumman Data Systems
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- This recipe is tried and true!!!
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- BLACK FOREST CAKE
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- 4 eggs
- 3/4 tsp. vanilla
- 2/3 c. sugar
- 1/3 c. cocoa
- 1/3 c. sifted flour
- 6 Tbs. clarified butter
- 1/2 c. sugar
- 3/4 c. water
- 1/4 c. kirsch
- 1 c. pitted dark cherries, drained and soaked in the kirsch
- 2 c. heavy cream, whipped
- 1/3 c. confectioner's sugar
- chocolate curls and maraschino cherries for garnish.
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- Beat for ten minutes at high speed eggs, vanilla, and 2/3 c sugar.
- sift together flour and cocoa, fold into egg mixture. add melted butter,
- stir until JUST mixed. pour into 3 greased and floured 6'' round pans.
- Bake in 350 oven for 10-15 mins
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- Cool in pans 5 mins, remove and cool on racks.
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- Combine 1/2 c sugar and water in saucepan. boil 5 minutes. cool to
- lukewarm and add kirsch sprinkle over cake layers. Fold confectioner's
- sugar into whipped cream. spread one layer of cake with cream, sprinkle
- on 1/2 the cherries. put second layer on top and repeat. put last layer
- on top and frost top and sides with remaining cream.
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- Garnish.
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- Jim Dart !!!
- (dartji@gdss.grumman.com)
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