Black Forest cake facts for kids
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| Alternative names | Black Forest gâteau |
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| Place of origin | Germany |
| Main ingredients | Chocolate cake, cherries, whipped cream, maraschino cherry |
The Black Forest Cake, also known as Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, is a yummy German dessert. It's a chocolate layer cake with sweet cherries in the middle and fluffy whipped cream on top. People traditionally make it with fresh Morello cherries. These cherries are cooked in a sugar syrup and have their pits removed. This cake is a special kind of chocolate cake. Sometimes, it's even decorated with pretty chocolate curls!
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Where Does Black Forest Cake Come From?
This delicious dessert is not named directly after the Black Forest mountains in Germany. Instead, it gets its name from a special cherry flavor from that area. This flavor comes from a cherry spirit called Schwarzwälder Kirsch. It's made from tart cherries. This unique cherry flavor is what gives the cake its special taste.
People first combined cherries, cream, and this cherry spirit as a dessert. Cooked cherries were served with cream and the cherry spirit. A cake with cherries, cookies or biscuits, and cream (but without the cherry spirit) likely started in Germany.
World Records for Black Forest Cake
Did you know there are world records for the biggest Black Forest cakes?
Largest Black Forest Cake in Germany
The record for the world's largest real Black Forest cake was set in Europa Park, Germany. This happened on July 16, 2006. The cake was made by K&U Bakery. It was huge, almost 80 square meters! It weighed 3,000 kilograms, which is like 3,000 bags of sugar! The cake was 10 meters wide. To make it, they used 700 liters of cream, 5,600 eggs, 800 kilograms of cherries, 40 kilograms of chocolate shavings, and 120 liters of cherry spirit.
Largest Black Forest Cake in Asia
On December 9, 2012, chefs Jörg Mink and Julien Bompard led a team in Singapore. They made Asia's biggest Black Forest cake at the S-One Expo. This cake weighed 500 kilograms. It was made with 165 liters of cream, 1,500 eggs, 68 kilograms of cherries, 60 kilograms of chocolate shavings, and 10 liters of cherry spirit.
Swedish "Black Forest Cake"
There's a Swedish cake called Schwarzwaldtårta. It sounds like Black Forest cake, but it's quite different! This Swedish cake has layers of meringue with whipped cream in between. The whole cake is also covered with whipped cream. It's then decorated with chocolate. It's related to the German Black Forest cake only by name.
Images for kids
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A Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte
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Cherry Black Forest Cake
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Another Black Forest Cake
See also
In Spanish: Pastel de la Selva Negra para niños
