Black forest cake recipe

Recipe for black forest cake in our easy vegetarian recipes collection.

Recipe ingredients

• Cake:
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup honey
  • 1/2 cup applesauce
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon vinegar
  • 2 cups wholewheat pastry flour or unbleached white flour
  • 3/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Syrup:
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 2 each thin lemon or orange slices
  • 1/3 cup kirsch
• Icing:
  • 3/4 cup raw cashews
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 10 ounces firm tofu
  • 3 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, melted
  • 16 ounces jar pitted cherries, drained

How to make black forest cake

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine liquid ingredients in a large bowl and whisk well.
• Sift dry ingredients together and whisk into liquid mixture.
• Pour into greased and floured 9 inch cake tin.
• Bake for 35 minutes or until springy.
• Cool cake completely and remove from pan.
• With a serrated knife, cut cake horizontally to make 3 thin layers.
• Syrup: Combine first 3 ingredients in a small pot and boil for 3 minutes. Let cool and then add kirsch.
• In a blender, combine cashews, water and vanilla. Blend till smooth and creamy.
• Add honey and tofu. Blend again.
• Set aside 2 cups for the vanilla icing to go on top and sides of cake.
• To the rest of the mixture, add melted chocolate and 3 tablepoons of syrup. Blend till smooth.
• Chill both icings before using.
• Carefully remove the top two layers of cake.
• Brush some syrup onto bottom layer and spread half of chocolate icing over it.
• Place the middle cake layer on top. Brush with syrup and icing.
• Put down a layer of cherries. Dot with a little vanilla icing to help the top layer stick.
• Place the top layer on the cherries. Brush again with syrup.
• Frost top and sides with vanilla icing.
• Decorate with cherries and pipe rosettes if desired.
• Chill several hours before serving.
• The cake can be kept covered if not being served till the following day.
• However, the frosting may discolour after about 3 days.

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