Black Forest Gateau

Hi All, click on the following link to find out the origins of the Black Forest Gateau:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest_gateau

Preparing and building the Black Forest Gateau:

Use the following pictures as a reminder of what we did in class, these will be helpful when you do your assessment in week 18.

Ensure you have all your ingredients ready prior to building the Gateau. This will include your chocolate shavings, kirsch flavoured soaking syrup, whipped cream, 3 layers of chocolate sponges, cherry filling and morello cherries for garnishing.

As each layer of sponge is used it is soaked generously with the kirsch stock syrup. The purpose of soaking the sponge well is enhance the eating quality of the finished product and assist in maintianing the shelf life of the Gateau.

The cherries may be added in several ways, they can be added to 1 entire layer or they can be placed in the layer as shown with the cream. This will look effective when the Gateau is cut.

After placing the cherries on first layer add a second sponge layer, syrup and top with cream.

Once the third layer of sponge has been add completely mask the gateau in cream. Use shaved chocolate for decorating the sides, mark the top in to 12 portions, place a rosette on each portion and a morello cherry on every alternate rosette.