This White forest cake is made of layers of vanilla cake soaked in some kind of cherry-based syrup layered with cherries and cream frosted with more cream and covered in chocolate decorations.
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Ingredients required in this recipe are:
- All purpose flour/maida-1 1/4 cups(150gms)
- Eggs-4 eggs, yolks, and whites separated (at room temperature)
- Powdered Sugar 1 cup.
- Oil-1/3 Cup.
- Vanilla essence-1 1/2 Teaspoons.
- Baking powder-1/2 Tablespoon.
- Milk -1/2 Cup at room temperature.
For Sugar Syrup :
- Sugar-1/4 cup.
- Hot Water-1/2 Cup.
- Chopped cherry- 1 tbsp.
For decoration :
- Whipping Cream- 2 Cups.
- Candied Cherry-1/4 Cup, Chopped & for decoration
- White Chocolate -100 gms, For decorations.
- Chocolate Ganache- 1/4 cup or as needed.
Method of preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes.
- Grease the tin with oil or butter and dust with some flour or cocoa powder. Keep this aside.
- Separate egg yolks and whites into different bowls(use a large bowl)
- Beat the egg white for 2 minutes or until it turns airy and fluffy. Add 1 cup of powdered sugar little by little and beat the egg white until stiff peaks form. It may take 5 minutes.
- The meringue is ready.
- Add egg yolks one at a time and beat well.
- Add vanilla essence, and mix well Add oil and milk and beat well.
- Add the dry ingredients in three additions to the egg yolk mixture. Fold and mix well. Gently fold and mix well.
- The cake batter is now ready. Transfer the batter to the prepared cake tin and tap the tin to remove the air bubbles if any.
- Bake the cake for 35-40 minutes at 180 degrees Celcius preheated in an oven, or bake until a skewer or toothpick inserted should come out clean.
- Let it cool down to room temperature on a cooling rack upside down. and remove it from the tin.
- Chop the cherries and keep them aside.
- Heat a pan with water and sugar. Boil the water and add chopped cherries. Keep the sugar syrup aside and let it cool down completely.
- To make whipped cream, chill the bowl and whisk attachment in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
- Whip the cream at high speed until stiff peaks form.Transfer some whipped cream to a piping bag with a star tip.
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