Hi folks hows it going welcome to my virgin kitchen todays recipe is my
delicious
black forest gateau looks amazing right and there's an even special twist
to today's video this is a collaboration with my friend Shiri
AKA Gentleman Bunny on Youtube Tube check out her channel she makes all this funky stuff
out of clay I can't do that very well and she's amazing
this black forest gateau she's done her own version if you want to have a go at making this hit
pause on the video
now and write them all down it super easy, tasty, gorgeous, delicious
and all that stuff and I hope you give it a try first thing to do is grab your eggs now these are seperated
get your six egg yolks into a bowl and pour in your caster sugar
whisk all together until it's nice and thick and creamy
and dreamy if you are feeling romantic
add 20 grams of grated up dark chocolate
on top of that then your cocoa powder that's 50 grammes right there
oh my goodness fold it all in with a spoon let it all get to know eachother sort
of like a really bad dance move in a nightclub
with your chocolate mixture all combined put it to one side give your electric whisk tong things
a wash then whip up your egg whites get it nice and stiff and firm
once your happy with the egg whites get a tablespoon of the egg white mixture
boom
into the choco mixture and mix it all around so they just get to know eachother
nothing fancy at this stage the eggs are kinda like I remember you - you're the egg yolk, you're the egg white we used to be friends
we used to be a family.... you know what I mean
with the first egg white combined grab the rest of it and fold it in slowly to give it
some air time kinda like micheal jordan symbol you see that oh yeah work it through until you get a nice
foamy airy chocolatey mixture I don't know why i'm doing that with my hands
it looks kinda rude, but just go with it now that you are happy with your chocolate mixture pour it evenly in 2 sandwich tins
that are greased and lined now they went into the oven I had a lot of time spare
so I put them on the middle shelf one at a time and the oven was pre-heated to gas mark 4
or equivalent which is down below and it took just over 20mins
don't brown the tops
just want it nice and firm 20 minutes as long as you don't open the oven and
trust it - trust your oven and it'll be fine. I wish I set up a channel like Shiri
making clay
would have been a lot cheaper than the ingredients
although my version isn't as good as you can see so um, check Shiri's channel out for clay stuff
something to do while your cakes are cooling down is pour in a load of
double cream into a bowl and again whisk with your tongs that have been cleaned for
a final time
whisk it up until it's nice and thick then whack it in the fridge
to start moving the cake we move on to first base
home run baseball reference bad ok so in a pot
I drained off some syrup from some tinned pitted cherries if you can get them in fruit juice even
better
so about 2 table spoons of that
and mixed it with 2 table spoons of cherry cordial which is available in posh
super markets come to think of it if you are a part time alcoholic like me
cherry brandy or even jagermeister would make up for it
not today Barry not today put a couple of spoonfuls of that cherry juice onto both
sponges
and just let it absorb through grate up 200 grams of dark chocolate
and then on both the cake bases on the outer edge or rim whatever you
wanna call it
just smear around a little bit of that cream from earlier and then pat
the chocolate all around the edge because that cream will act like a glue and start to
make it look good around the edge - good! spread a good layer of cherry jam on the
bottom layer of your sponge or even cherry compote if you're feeling
posh grab half of the remaining cream from the bowl and just smear that all along the top sponge
on top op the jam
oh wow extra creamy loving baby
get your drained tin of pitted cherries that's a mouthful to say just halve them
and sit them on top of the cream to create a nice even layer for the sponge to
sit on
and that is exactly what to do next grab your second sponge I used some fish slices and put them on top I couldn't think
of anything more technical so fish slices
worked add your remaining cream on top
of the second sponge and oh my goodness you're in heaven right now
add some fresh cherries with stalks on around the outside edge
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then add on some grated chocolate
looking good some more cherries from the tin and
a final dusting of chocolate on top and that my friends is how you make my
delicious black forest gateau
Barry & Phoebe taste the gateau