The Art of Baking: A Journey to Create a Perfect Black Forest Cake

Thirty minutes later at 350 degrees Fahrenheit, we have ourselves a perfectly baked sponge cake, which we are going to allow to cool completely while we start messing with cherries. I'm going to make our filling out of some jarred sour cherries in this case Morello cherries from which I'm going to remove the stems and then divide into halves there has to be a more human way to say that I took off the stems and now I'm cutting in half that's better and then I'm putting them in a medium saucepan along with a half cup of powdered sugar about two tablespoons of cornstarch maybe 1/2 cup of this syrup in which our cherries were syrup and maybe a quarter cup of Kirsch which is a kind of German disgusting cherry brandy but it is essential in making authentic black forest cake anyway we're simmering that together for about 10 minutes until everybody's nice and thick and syrupy and setting aside to cool completely whilst we release our cake from its aluminium in prison just pretend it's a delicious cocktail or an etch-a-sketch and give it a shake and we're just gonna peel off the parchment paper that we so cleverly lined our pan with.

While it continues to cool, we're gonna make our whipped cream frosting which is really just whipped cream sorry to say into a mixer go 2 pints of heavy cream 1 cup of powdered sugar and then we're gonna whip them together you know like how you make whipped cream I know it doesn't make sense but there it is. Now we're ready to start gussied up our cake first we have to divide our master cake into two cake rounds we're gonna do that by slowly moving the knife around the outside of the cake trying to keep the blade at the same central level until we've cut all the way around and the two halves are ready to start seeing other people it's only a trial separation though because we're about to glue them back together.

First we're gonna spread down a little bit of our whipped cream to hold the cake in place and then we're placing our first cake half cut side up and then sprinkling it with more delicious quiche until it is lightly saturated with the delectable fake cherry tasting alcohol and then we're spreading down a nice even layer of our whipped cream quote-unquote frosting and then topping that with half of our sour cherry mixture make sure it's spread evenly with a little gap around the outside so it doesn't bleed out too much when we reunite our star-crossed lovers and bring these expect together.

Only to add another layer of whipped cream and cherries men trying to spice things up by adding a third to the party which I only did for continuities sake the cake in the video game looked pretty tall so I utilized one of those scrummy first batch cakes and decided to make it a third layer which I then frosted over using our whipped cream quote-unquote frosting I'll keep making that joke until people stop frosting their cakes with whipped cream but now it's time to make some chocolate shavings which I'm going to do by pressing a chocolate bar into my upper crotch area and pressing a knife across the top making these lovely delicate little chocolate shavings that we're going to decorate the outside of our cake with once our chocolate bar has given up all its got.

We're going to chop these into slightly smaller pieces just to match the aesthetic of the cake in the game and then we're going to coat it all over in the chocolate shavings you might want to use gloves to prevent the chocolate from melting and you might want to use an actual cake stand that you can rotate instead of a pizza peel that you used because that's all you could find and don't ask me any more questions I don't want to talk about it then we're going to spin our remaining whipped cream and a pastry bag get it all over our kitchen and decorate the top of our cake with eight whatever these things are called little flower blossoms.

And of course this is your reward for finishing all those tests so it needs a candle obviously I don't really want to cut this with a lit candle so I'm going to make a wish even though it's not my birthday owl that's what I get from making a wish when it's not my birthday and I'm gonna cut the slice of this cake which I gotta say is pretty good. The chocolate the cherries balance each other out and the whipped cream is nice and it's a nice way to celebrate the new show that Vinny Sawyer and I have been hard at work on it's coming out this Friday and here's a trailer for it you\\n\

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enone eighteen point two five pounds package chocolate cake mix one can prepared coconut pecan frosting fish shaped crackers fish shaped candies fish shaped solid waste fish shaped dirt fish shaped ethylbenzene pull and peel licorice it what's up guys welcome back to binging with babish for this week we're taking a look at the cake from Portal which despite that malicious robots description I think is a Black Forest gateau based off its decoration so for that we need to break out our stand mixer along with eight medium eggs or 6 large eggs 5 and 1/2 ounces of granulated sugar and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract and then we're gonna beat those together using our whisk attachment for at least 8 minutes because the Black Forest gateau does not rely on chemical leaveners like baking powder or baking soda instead we have to beat a ton of air into the batter and as you can see it's more than tripled in volume and now we have to add our dry ingredients without deflating the batter into a sieve goes three and a half ounces of all-purpose flour and 2 ounces of cocoa powder which we're gonna pass through and then very very gently fold into the mix and then we also have to incorporate 3 tablespoons of melted butter so I'm going to add a big ol spoonful of our batter and mix it together and that's gonna make it a little bit easier to incorporate into the final batter and here's where I screwed things up royally as I'm known to do from time to time I started folding things together and then decided to start whisking to make sure that everybody really got to know each other but they got to know each other too well and my batter deflated by at least half the moral of the story being once you've added your dry ingredients do not whisk your batter otherwise you will end up with half-assed cakes like these because like I mentioned before these cakes don't have any chemical leaveners so they're only gonna rise as much as the batter initially was inflated so in an effort to prevent our batter from deflating we're going to pre sipped our ingredients onto a sheet of parchment paper and slowly channel them down into our mixer while it runs using the paddle attachment letting her go for a minute or two until everything is incorporated and resulting in a much fluffier cake better I'd be lying if I said that I didn't learn some of this from the Great British Bake Off anyway thirty minutes later at 350 degrees Fahrenheit we have ourselves a perfectly baked we sponge which we are going to allow to cool completely while we start messing with cherries I'm going to make our filling out of some jarred sour cherries in this case Morello cherries from which I'm going to remove the stems and then divide into halves there has to be a more human way to say that I took off the stems and now I'm cutting in half that's better and then I'm putting them in a medium saucepan along with a half cup of powdered sugar about two tablespoons of cornstarch maybe 1/2 cup of these syrup in which our cherries were syrup and maybe a quarter cup of Kirsch which is a kind of German disgusting cherry brandy but it is essential in making authentic black forest cake anyway we're simmering that together for about 10 minutes until everybody's nice and thick and syrupy and setting aside to cool completely whilst we release our cake from its aluminium in prison just pretend it's a delicious cocktail or an etch-a-sketch and give it a shake and we're just gonna peel off the parchment paper that we so cleverly lined our pan with and while it continues to cool we're gonna make our whipped cream frosting which is really just whipped cream sorry to say into a mixer go 2 pints of heavy cream 1 cup of powdered sugar and then we're gonna whip them together you know like how you make whipped cream I know it doesn't make sense but there it is and now we're ready to start gussied up our cake first we have to divide our master cake into two cake rounds we're gonna do that by slowly moving the knife around the outside of the cake trying to keep the blade at the same central level until we've cut all the way around and the two halves are ready to start seeing other people it's only a trial separation though because we're about to glue them back together first we're gonna spread down a little bit of our whipped cream to hold the cake in place and then we're placing our first cake half cut side up and then sprinkling it with more delicious quiche until it is lightly saturated with the delectable fake cherry tasting alcohol and then we're spreading down a nice even layer of our whipped cream quote-unquote frosting and then topping that with half of our sour cherry mixture make sure it's spread evenly with a little gap around the outside so it doesn't bleed out too much when we reunite our star-crossed lovers and bring these expect together only to add another layer of whipped cream and cherries men trying to spice things up by adding a third to the party which I only did for continuities sake the cake in the video game looked pretty tall so I utilized one of those scrummy first batch cakes and decided to make it a third layer which I then frosted over using our whipped cream quote-unquote frosting I'll keep making that joke until people stop frosting their cakes with whipped cream but now it's time to make some chocolate shavings which I'm going to do by pressing a chocolate bar into my upper crotch area and pressing a knife across the top making these lovely delicate little chocolate shavings that we're going to decorate the outside of our cake with once our chocolate bar has given up all its got we're going to chop these into slightly smaller pieces just to match the aesthetic of the cake in the game and then we're going to coat it all over in the chocolate shavings you might want to use gloves to prevent the chocolate from melting and you might want to use an actual cake stand that you can rotate instead of a pizza peel that you used because that's all you could find and don't ask me any more questions I don't want to talk about it then we're going to spin our remaining whipped cream and a pastry bag get it all over our kitchen and decorate the top of our cake with eight whatever these things are called little flower blossoms and then top each one of these little flower blossoms with a sour cherry and of course this is your reward for finishing all those tests so it needs a candle obviously I don't really want to cut this with a lit candle so I'm going to make a wish even though it's not my birthday owl that's what I get from making a wish when it's not my birthday and I'm gonna cut the slice of this cake which I gotta say is pretty good the chocolate the cherries balance each other out and the whipped cream is nice and it's a nice way to celebrate the new show that Vinny Sawyer and I have been hard at work on it's coming out this Friday and here's a trailer for it youone eighteen point two five pounds package chocolate cake mix one can prepared coconut pecan frosting fish shaped crackers fish shaped candies fish shaped solid waste fish shaped dirt fish shaped ethylbenzene pull and peel licorice it what's up guys welcome back to binging with babish for this week we're taking a look at the cake from Portal which despite that malicious robots description I think is a Black Forest gateau based off its decoration so for that we need to break out our stand mixer along with eight medium eggs or 6 large eggs 5 and 1/2 ounces of granulated sugar and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract and then we're gonna beat those together using our whisk attachment for at least 8 minutes because the Black Forest gateau does not rely on chemical leaveners like baking powder or baking soda instead we have to beat a ton of air into the batter and as you can see it's more than tripled in volume and now we have to add our dry ingredients without deflating the batter into a sieve goes three and a half ounces of all-purpose flour and 2 ounces of cocoa powder which we're gonna pass through and then very very gently fold into the mix and then we also have to incorporate 3 tablespoons of melted butter so I'm going to add a big ol spoonful of our batter and mix it together and that's gonna make it a little bit easier to incorporate into the final batter and here's where I screwed things up royally as I'm known to do from time to time I started folding things together and then decided to start whisking to make sure that everybody really got to know each other but they got to know each other too well and my batter deflated by at least half the moral of the story being once you've added your dry ingredients do not whisk your batter otherwise you will end up with half-assed cakes like these because like I mentioned before these cakes don't have any chemical leaveners so they're only gonna rise as much as the batter initially was inflated so in an effort to prevent our batter from deflating we're going to pre sipped our ingredients onto a sheet of parchment paper and slowly channel them down into our mixer while it runs using the paddle attachment letting her go for a minute or two until everything is incorporated and resulting in a much fluffier cake better I'd be lying if I said that I didn't learn some of this from the Great British Bake Off anyway thirty minutes later at 350 degrees Fahrenheit we have ourselves a perfectly baked we sponge which we are going to allow to cool completely while we start messing with cherries I'm going to make our filling out of some jarred sour cherries in this case Morello cherries from which I'm going to remove the stems and then divide into halves there has to be a more human way to say that I took off the stems and now I'm cutting in half that's better and then I'm putting them in a medium saucepan along with a half cup of powdered sugar about two tablespoons of cornstarch maybe 1/2 cup of these syrup in which our cherries were syrup and maybe a quarter cup of Kirsch which is a kind of German disgusting cherry brandy but it is essential in making authentic black forest cake anyway we're simmering that together for about 10 minutes until everybody's nice and thick and syrupy and setting aside to cool completely whilst we release our cake from its aluminium in prison just pretend it's a delicious cocktail or an etch-a-sketch and give it a shake and we're just gonna peel off the parchment paper that we so cleverly lined our pan with and while it continues to cool we're gonna make our whipped cream frosting which is really just whipped cream sorry to say into a mixer go 2 pints of heavy cream 1 cup of powdered sugar and then we're gonna whip them together you know like how you make whipped cream I know it doesn't make sense but there it is and now we're ready to start gussied up our cake first we have to divide our master cake into two cake rounds we're gonna do that by slowly moving the knife around the outside of the cake trying to keep the blade at the same central level until we've cut all the way around and the two halves are ready to start seeing other people it's only a trial separation though because we're about to glue them back together first we're gonna spread down a little bit of our whipped cream to hold the cake in place and then we're placing our first cake half cut side up and then sprinkling it with more delicious quiche until it is lightly saturated with the delectable fake cherry tasting alcohol and then we're spreading down a nice even layer of our whipped cream quote-unquote frosting and then topping that with half of our sour cherry mixture make sure it's spread evenly with a little gap around the outside so it doesn't bleed out too much when we reunite our star-crossed lovers and bring these expect together only to add another layer of whipped cream and cherries men trying to spice things up by adding a third to the party which I only did for continuities sake the cake in the video game looked pretty tall so I utilized one of those scrummy first batch cakes and decided to make it a third layer which I then frosted over using our whipped cream quote-unquote frosting I'll keep making that joke until people stop frosting their cakes with whipped cream but now it's time to make some chocolate shavings which I'm going to do by pressing a chocolate bar into my upper crotch area and pressing a knife across the top making these lovely delicate little chocolate shavings that we're going to decorate the outside of our cake with once our chocolate bar has given up all its got we're going to chop these into slightly smaller pieces just to match the aesthetic of the cake in the game and then we're going to coat it all over in the chocolate shavings you might want to use gloves to prevent the chocolate from melting and you might want to use an actual cake stand that you can rotate instead of a pizza peel that you used because that's all you could find and don't ask me any more questions I don't want to talk about it then we're going to spin our remaining whipped cream and a pastry bag get it all over our kitchen and decorate the top of our cake with eight whatever these things are called little flower blossoms and then top each one of these little flower blossoms with a sour cherry and of course this is your reward for finishing all those tests so it needs a candle obviously I don't really want to cut this with a lit candle so I'm going to make a wish even though it's not my birthday owl that's what I get from making a wish when it's not my birthday and I'm gonna cut the slice of this cake which I gotta say is pretty good the chocolate the cherries balance each other out and the whipped cream is nice and it's a nice way to celebrate the new show that Vinny Sawyer and I have been hard at work on it's coming out this Friday and here's a trailer for it you\n"