Culinary Classics: Cake Montenegro

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

On the date March 28 the world notes the day of the favorite of many Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, also known as the Black Forest Cake.

Gentle, light, refined… Montenegro cake is the perfect end to any dinner, whether with or without an occasion. This masterpiece among cakes is prepared with a rich cherry flavor, because the original recipe contains a strong cherry liqueur from the Black Forest region. The first piece of this chocolate cake with cherries was created in 1915.

And to find out why culinary classics are really considered as such, we offer you to prepare and try at least once in your life. Black Forest cake or Montenegro cakeas it is known to most culinary enthusiasts.

Necessary products:

For the marshes:

400 g brown sugar, 260 g white flour, 80 g cocoa, 10 g baking powder, 10 g baking soda, incomplete tsp. salt, 2 eggs at room temperature, 250 ml of milk, 120 ml of sunflower oil, 2 tsp. vanilla essence, 250 ml of warm water

For cherries:

500 g pitted cherries, 50 g brown sugar, 20 ml kirsch (you can replace it with rum, cognac, brandy or fruit liqueur)

For decorating:

500 ml sweetened liquid cream, 2 tsp. vanilla essence, 150 g dark chocolate, 12 pcs. red cocktail cherries (maraschino)

Method of preparation:

The countertops:

In a bowl, mix the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir well. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla.

Then beat the mixture for about 2 minutes, adding a little water. The resulting mixture will have a thin consistency (like a mixture for pancakes). Divide it into two equal parts and distribute it in the baking tins. Baking tins should have movable walls and a diameter of 26 cm. Before pouring the mixture, spray them with baking spray or grease them.

Blackwood cake trays bake in a preheated 180 degree oven for 30-35 minutes or until the stick stuck in the marsh comes out dry. After removing them from the oven, you need to leave them in the molds for about 10 minutes, after which you can remove them from them and leave them to cool completely.

Cherries:

Mix the cherries with the sugar and kirsha in a saucepan. Stir them and leave them for 1-2 hours at room temperature. Then let them simmer over medium heat until the sugar has melted. Cool them and strain them. Save the juice for syruping the marshmallows.

Assembly and decoration:

Mix the cream and vanilla and beat until creamy.

Put one tray in the service plate. Syrup it with half of the juice from the cherries, then spread it with some cream. Arrange the cherries on it and put some more cream so that it levels the surface. Place the other tray on top and repeat.

Cover the cherry cake with the remaining cream, but be sure to set aside a small amount for decoration.

Melt the chocolate in a water bath. Put it in a pastry bag with a thin tip and use it to draw the cherries on the sides of the cake.

You can spread the rest of the chocolate on baking paper and put it in the fridge to harden. You can then cut it into triangles to prick in the middle of cake Montenegro, or make them into sawdust to sprinkle on the side of the cake.

Put the rest of the cream in a pastry bag with a star-shaped tip. Spray 12 symmetrically arranged roses on the periphery of the cake. Put a cocktail cherry on them.