It’s my birthday. I want Black Forest Gateau.

[Blimeyorange]

I want rich dark chocolate sponge. I want cherries soaked in kirsch. I want proper whipped cream.

Where can I buy such a dream concoction? Supermarket versions are lightweight.

Am I imagining things, or did it used to be spelt 'gateaux' in the 70s?

Honestly the best I ever had was in Baden Baden. It was pure heaven. But I’m not sure that helps you.

I’m not keen on Patisserie Valerie stuff. We had a pile for an event and it was very average.

That's the one I did! Picture in the thread

Is gateaux not the plural of gateau?

Yes you will just use a duck egg to replace two hens eggs and it will hold together better (obviously gluten free flour)

Wow! So it seems. I am sure shop-bought BFGs back then were labelled gateaux!

Ive always liked the Iceland one...!

Delia recipe, Return to the Black Forest, is an easy take on it as it's a roulade.

I'd make a Devils Food Cake recipe.and fill it with cherries and cream. I've never tasted a mass-produced cake that's as nice as homemade. As someone else said a deconstructed version would be easy.

I made a black forest pavlova that went down well.

Yours looks amazing! 😋

@Obsesetits not too late! Have a date night with that as the surprise pudding (if you can find it make one).

I get cherries from a tin and soak them in kirsch. I use Mary Berry and Deliah recipe which is half and half - I use the cherries and the fresh whipped cream. Haven't made for about 5/6 years though

Many years ago Waitrose used to do an amazing Black Forest gateau, complete with kirsch soaked cherries,
confectioners custard (now called crème patissiere I think) and lashings of fresh cream. It was amazing. Doesn’t really help you though OP, I haven’t had decent one for years

That looks absolutely superb. No scrimping on the cream! It looks authentically retro in a really good way as well.

I don't rate the PV Black Forest Gateau. I had the M&S frozen one for my own birthday a couple of years ago, and it was pretty good. My requirements are a bit skewed by the forêt noire cakes I used to get from a French bakery, which must be 40 years ago now. Still a treasured memory.

Black Forest gateaux is gluten free - there isn't flour in the Sainsbury recipe linked above

sorry it does have flour - look at Delilah's recipe back to the Black Forest as that is flourless www.deliaonline.com/recipes/collections/easy-entertaining/a-return-to-the-black-forest

I haven't tried the Cook one but it looks very nice...

I like the Iceland Victoria sandwich with whipped cream and it’s so cheap ❤️

Dd always makes me one for my birthday cos it’s my favourite!
last year I had a party and ordered a massive one from Lola’s cupcakes, it was absolutely DIVINE I tell you. Bit late now I realise.
Happy birthday 🥳

Watching to see if @Blimeyorange gets her gateau! And from where!!
Happy birthday Blimey, hope it’s been a lovely day.

am now craving BFG, found this recipe which mentions soaking the sponge with kirsch and cherry juice as a previous poster suggested , looks yum, will report back if I get to try

odlums.ie/recipes/black-forest-gateau/

Deconstructed. Chocolate cake, cream, cherries, dark chocolate and kirsch.
Not unknown here when I get a sweet craving, minus the booze.

Oooh
what recipe does she use please?