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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Deutschland >> German

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. CAKE: Beat eggs, sugar, and vanilla together until thick and fluffy, about 10 minutes. | 2. Alternately fold chocolate and flour into the egg mixture, ending with flour. | 3. Pour the batter into 3 8-inch cake pans that have been well greased and floured. | 4. Bake in a preheated 350 degree F. oven for 10 to 15 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. | 5. Cool cakes in pans for 5 minutes; turn out on racks to cool completely. | 6. SYRUP: Make syrup by mixing together sugar and water and boiling for 5 minutes. | 7. When syrup has cooled, stir in kirsch. | 8. Prick the cake layers and pour syrup over all 3 layers. | 9. FILLING: To make the butter-cream filling, beat together sugar and butter until well blended. | 10. Add egg yolk; beat until light and fluffy, about 3 to 5 minutes. | 11. Fold in Kirsch. | 12. CAKE ASSEMBLY: To assemble cake, place 1 layer on a cake plate. | 13. Spread with butter cream filling. | 14. Using 3/4 cup of the cherries, which have been patted dry, drop cherries evenly over cream. | 15. Place second layer on cake. | 16. Repeat. | 17. Place third layer on top. | 18. Fold 2 T confectioners' sugar into the whipped cream. | 19. Cover the sides and top of the cake with whipped cream. | 20. Decorate top of cake with remaining 1/2 cup cherries. | 21. To make chocolate curls from chocolate bar, shave (at room temperature) with a vegetable peeler. | 22. Refrigerate curls until ready to use. | 23. Press chocolate curls on sides of cake and sprinkle a few on the top. | 24. Chill until serving time. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
egg	6			429.0	2.16	37.68	28.53
sugar	1	cup		805.98	201.59599999999998	0.0	0.0
vanilla extract	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
baking chocolate	4	ounces	unsweetened melted	535.248	41.0508	13.7214	54.0918
flour	1	cup	sifted	364.56	26.8128	31.7604	17.346
sugar	1/4	cup		805.98	201.59599999999998	0.0	0.0
water	1/3	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
kirsch	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
confectioner ' sugar	1 1/2	cups		-	-	-	-
butter	1/3	cup	unsalted	456.0	20.951999999999998	14.248	38.4
egg yolk	1			54.74	0.6103	2.6962	4.5118
kirsch liqueur	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
cherry	2	cups	sour canned drained	155.0	37.758	3.1	0.93
confectioner ' sugar	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
cream	1	cup	whipped	792.0	15.96	8.712	83.23200000000001
chocolate bar	8	ounces	semisweet	1204.2864	131.5643	19.3003	69.3315

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.