If you’re looking for a gooey chocolate fix, you’ve come to the right place! This cake recipe makes for a quick yet impressive dessert option and uses basic ingredients that you probably already have in your cupboards.
1 stick of butter, plus extra for greasing
1 cup caster sugar
2 large free-range eggs
1/3 cup plain flour, plus extra for dusting
3 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
Icing sugar, to dust
Handful raspberries, to serve
100g butter, plus extra for greasing
200g caster sugar
2 large free-range eggs
70g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
3 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
Icing sugar, to dust
Handful raspberries, to serve
20cm/8″ cake tin with a removable base
Black Forest Cake is a traditional German dessert that has been well and truly adopted by happy dessert eaters worldwide. Typically, black forest cake consists of several layers of chocolate cake, with whipped cream and cherries between each layer. Then the cake is decorated with additional whipped cream, more cherries, and chocolate shavings. This version is particularly delicious as I spike each layer of the cake with rum or kirsch, a fragrant cherry liqueur making it moist, boozy and oh so good. Recipe from The Pleasures of the Table: Rediscovering Theodora Fitzgibbon.