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Add some whipped cream to a pastry bag with fluted tip or a plastic baggie with one corner cut off to decorate the top. Then your cake will look like a more traditional German Black Forest Cake. If at all possible, use Dr. Oetker Sahnesteif to stabilize the heavy cream.
Apple Crumble Cake Authentic German Black Forest Cake or Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. This is the best-known German gateau there is. Three layers of chocolate sponge filled with cherries, Kirsch, and whipped cream, and garnished with chocolate shavings.
For decorating, you can leave the sides just white with the whipped cream, use chocolate sprinkles or shavings, or use sliced almonds, like I did in the top photo. Delicious! Adding Maraschino cherries on top of this Black Forest Cake below makes this an Americanized version. A ‘real’ German cake would only use real cherries, usually sour ones.
An authentic black forest cake is always made with jar red morello (sour) cherries (Amazon affiliate link). I’ve seen recipes written in English on the Internet using fresh cherries, but I have never seen or tasted a real German black forest gateau made with fresh cherries. They are ALWAYS canned.
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