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Black Forest Cake

Black Forest Cake: what it is and where to eat it

Forêt-Noire Gâteau

A chocolate sponge cake layered with whipped cream, cherries, and kirsch.

12 restaurants on Tastavo serve it

Cuisine
German

Typical ingredients

  • chocolate sponge
  • whipped cream
  • cherries
  • kirsch
  • chocolate shavings

History of the dish

Germany

Black Forest cake
© Mikelo · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Origin
Germany
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Black Forest gateau, (German: Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte [ˈʃvaʁt͡svɛldɐ ˈkɪʁʃˌtɔʁtə] , lit. 'Black Forest cherry torte') or Black Forest cake, is a layer cake made out of sponge cake flavoured with cocoa powder, cherries, Kirsch, and whipped cream, with dark chocolate as a decoration.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Black Forest gateau” · version used · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sources: Wikidata (CC0) · Wikipedia

Where to eat it

Bucharest

Strasbourg

Barcelona

Rome

Bruges

Budapest

Sofia

Kraków

Genoa

Bratislava

Thessaloniki

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