Katie Pook's
Katie’s Black Forest Gateaux
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- Bake type: Cakes
- Made in: Halstead, England
- Skill level: Medium
- Time taken: 2 hours
About this Bake
Very tasty! Chocolate, cherries, cream and alcohol! What’s not to love!
Top tip
I used a chocolate cake rather than a gateaux recipe for the sponge and lightly soaked the sponges in kirsch liqueur. This is because the gateaux recipe I had (from a cookbook) resembled a burnt Yorkshire when it came out of the oven.