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 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.
My Great Grand Mother's recipe for the chocolate cake.
I've called it "The 1900's Chocolate Cake".
My Grand-ma, Bonne-Maman, use to bake it every year for our birthday.
6 eggs (separate the yolk, keep both)
90 g of butter
180g of chocolate
80G of potato flour
200g of sugar
Melt the chocolate and the butter together "au bain-marie"
Mix the yolks and the sugar until it takes a very clear color.
Add the potato flour.
In the bowl with the eggs, sugar and potato flour, stir the chocolate + the butter cream.
Very lightly, add the whip the 6 whites "montés en neige"…Th.n°5 (150°C), 50-60 min
Happy 40th JuJu!!
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