White forest cake

Never heard of a White Forest Cake, all of you must have heard about black forest cake which is a chocolate base cake with cherry and chocolate flakes toppings on the top of the cake.

Black forest cake has cocoa powder in it ,so its made up of chocolate cake , where as white forest cake has layers of white cake with vanilla extracts .

I am planning for my son’s birthday party and instead of having

birthday cake delivery from outside I would like to make cake myself

this time a white forest cake.

White forest cake is also made of chocolate sponge, layers of White Chocolate Mousse and cream and garnished with white chocolate flakes and cherry.

White forest cake is Made with creamy white chocolate and light, moist white chiffon cake layered between real cherry bits filling and a fusion of cream and white chocolate flakes.

Ingredients of white forest cake

120 g (4 oz.) sugar

250 g (1 cup) butter

A pinch of baking powder

500 g (5 cups) flour

2 egg yolk

Salt, vanilla sugar, lemon

100 g (4 oz.) red currant or raspberry jam

2 liter (4 cups) whipping cream

200 g (7 oz.) sugar

6 leaves of gelatin

500 g (18 oz.) Duke cherries

200 g (7 oz.) kirsch

100 g (4 oz.) chocolate shavings

24 cherries for decoration 

12 eggs

400 g (10 oz.) sugar

300 g (10 oz.) flour

200 g (7 oz.) couverture chocolate or 30 g (1 oz.) cocoa powder

120 g (2 oz.) softened butter

A small pinch of fine salt

For the filling

Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F)

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Resting time: 20 minutes

Baking time: 40 minutes

Cooling time: 2 to 3 hours

Take a big bowl. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.

Take another big bowl. Add butter and vanilla essence and whip them

Make the base, line the 8" cake tin with parchment paper.

Preheat the oven to 350f. Sifted together the flour,

baking powder and salt into a bowl. Beat/whisk the egg white at a

high speed of a mixer until foamy, the gradually add sugar, few tbsp at a time, then continue to beat until a peak stage.

Add the yolk, one at a time, to the white and beat until the mixture have reached a ribbon stage. You can make egg less cake also.

Greese the cake tray with oil and pour cake batter into it.

Bake it for around 25-30 mins.

Let it get completely cool at room temperature.

Take heavy whipped cream and 1/4th cup of sugar in a big bowl and whip it until it forms the texture of cream.

Cut the cake horizontally in two equal pieces.

Spread leftover pineapple juice on both the pieces.

Cover one piece completely with whipped cream and put second piece of cake on it.

Now, cover complete cake with whipped cream.

Shred the white chocolate with the help of opposite side of knife.

Cover all sides of cake with shredded chocolate. Make any design u love on top of the cake.

if you don't want making such cake yourself , you can order cake online .