Black Forest Cherry Cake (Black Forest Cake, Black Forest Cake, also Black Forest Cake via English ; German Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte ) - Cake with whipped cream and cherry. Appeared in Germany in the early 1930s, in Germany it is now considered a classic and has gained world fame. At the Black Forest cherry cake, chocolate biscuit cakes are soaked in Kirsch , the stuffing is made from cherries . Cherry and chocolate chips are used to decorate the cake [1] .
The origin of the cake is not known for certain, and it is not necessarily associated with the eponymous region of Germany . There are several versions. According to one of them, the name of the cake was given to chocolate chips, which resembled a dark or black forest. According to another, the kirschwasser cake is called Black Forest because it is in this region that this alcoholic drink is mainly produced. In addition, perhaps at the modern cake "Black Forest" was a predecessor originally from Switzerland. The name of the cake by the association could give the traditional Black Forest women's straw hat with pom-poms .
In the Southern Black Forest in the 19th century, not a cake was already known, but a dessert of cherries, whipped cream and kirsch: brewed cherries were served with cream, sometimes with the addition of a kirsch. Confectioner Josef Keller (1887–1981), a native of the Black Forest Riedlingen , claims to invent the Black Forest cake for the now-defunct Agner Cafe in Bad Godesberg in 1915, but in his 1927 recipe there is only one layer of cherry filling and sandy dough . The archivist of the city of Tübingen, Udo Rauch, named the inventor of the Black Forest cake the pastry chef Erwin Hildebrand, who worked in the city cafe "Waltz" [2] . In 1818–24, Tübingen, now unrelated to the Black Forest, was part of the Black Forest region. In the 1930s, the Black Forest cake became popular in Berlin , as well as in other major cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Previously, in the absence of electric refrigerators, cafes and pastry shops could not offer cakes with whipped cream for mass distribution.
Since 2006, the Black Forest Festival of Cake has been held in Todtnau, where both confectionery professionals and amateurs compete.
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See also
- Zug cherry cake