It just means the cake lasts much longer and doesn’t dry out! Theoretically a black forest cake should use fresh cream, but because I don’t want this cake to go in the fridge I use buttercream. When it comes to black forest cakes, there is a bit of a tussle about who is right in what the recipe puts. I realise most of you won’t want a giant version of this, but I think they look better in the pictures! Cream vs buttercream Because I went for a 500g mixed cake (to get four decent layers) you can easily just chop the recipe in half, and get a lovely two layered cake. The good thing about this cake is that you can easily halve it. In all honesty, I was meant to do this cake for my brother last year but I got a little sidetracked with life and never gave him the black forest cake he had asked for, so I thought going a little OTT this year would make up for it! And it did. This is partly because my black forest cake is already a three layer cake, so I wanted to make this different enough to that, and also to show you guys how to do a four layer beauty with a dark chocolate ganache covering! Black forest drip cakeīecause this cake is a little more intense with four layers, buttercream, jam, fruit and ganache there are quite a few ingredients so sorry in advance for that… but if you want to bake this exact cake, there is no way around it! Only the best will do for my brothers birthday. This cake is definitely a showstopper, as you will probably notice from the description at the beginning and the photos… I got a little carried away and went for a four layer insane cake instead of my usual three. To be honest though, when really is black forest season?! I usually think Christmas but August will do nicely! I realise that this may be a bit of a weird cake to post onto my blog in the summer, but it was for my brothers birthday so I’m rolling with it. Please see my disclosure for more details!* A four-layer black forest drip cake with chocolate sponges, cherries, vanilla buttercream, chocolate ganache, a chocolate drip and even more!
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