Photos and text by Corey Amaro.
How to make a Foret Noire (a black forest cake.)
Easy… you ask my niece Juliette to come over.
She made the chocolate cake (which in itself was almost as good as French Husband's welcome home kisses.)
Then she cut it in half, and spread homemade cherry jam in between the two layers. Next she added chocolate cream, then whipped cream and dotted it with black cherries.
After lunch Juliette carried the ingredients to make the foret noire at the table. She cut the cake in half and assembled it in front of us. If I hadn't just had lunch I swear I would have devoured it before she even opened the homemade jam. Watching someone make a cake like this is torture… Chocolate cream, whip cream, black cherries, a rich chocolate cake…. Juliette is the baker in the family. Never disappointing. Juliette masters a clever trick with ease.
She pre-sliced the cake before adding the filling! Because as she said, "It is a squishy mess to cut it after-wards if you don't do so."
Delicious as is… but it wasn't finished.
I was admiring her artistic way of putting the cake together that I didn't notice the chocolate cream and cherry jam spoons to lick!
Isn't Juliette's daughter Tatiana beautiful! I love the smudges of chocolate on those kissable lips.
Almost makes me happy she go to the spoons first.
P.S. Juliette will share the recipe in the comment section…. I hope.
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