![]() BLACK FOREST CAKEġ box dark chocolate or devil’s food cake mix (your favourite brand)ġ container whipped icing (cream cheese or vanilla)ġ can (21-ounce) cherry pie filling, dividedīake chocolate cake according to directions on the package, adding one teaspoon red food colouring and one teaspoon vanilla extract. A German import that came to the subcontinent, stayed, evolved and became Pakistani. Hence I dug up the old recipe, kosher and sans brandy.īake it, devour it, own it. Furthermore, the diehard Pakistani in my Pakistani American self, wanted to make the delight at home once again. On my return to Las Vegas, a place I now call home, I went on a quest to find the best BF cake in the city, and I did. And I ordered a second and a third slice (the entire family dug into it). The first bite and I was sold once again. Needless to say, the Black Forest cake at the Schonbrunn Palace is the best I’ve had. Browsing the dessert menu, the familiar picture caught my eye and, amongst the many Austrian desserts, the old faithful seemed safe to order. The recipe was lost, and the desire to bake it dimmed much, until my recent encounter with the most delicious Black Forest cake in Fuschl and Vienna, Austria. I was a pro at baking the Black Forest cake during my Karachi days more than two decades ago. The result is delectable, and the cake still possesses a sublime flavour. ![]() And the drench part (moisture) comes from fruit syrup. ![]() The cake has multiple layers of sponge cake, and each layer is frosted with whipped cream, cherries, chocolate shavings and a few cherries for decoration. Yeah, we’ve come up with a simple replacement. What does the Pakistani Black Forest cake taste like, since we do not drench it in brandy? His son, Claus Schaefer, the current Konditormeister of the Triberg Café Schaefer, inherited the book and the original recipe and has thus been able to carry on making Keller’s original.” After many years of collaboration, Keller gave Schaefer his recipe book which contained the original recipe. “Josef Keller established his own café in Radolfzell.Īugust Schaefer learned the trade as an apprentice to Keller in Radolfzell from 1924 to 1927. In the year 1915, he created what he called a Schwarzwaelder Kirsch, or Black Forest Cherry. Keller was the pastry chef at the Café Ahrend (today called Agner) in Bad Godesberg. This region was, and is, famous for its sour cherries and Kirsch or Kirschwasser (a double distilled, clear cherry brandy made from the sour Morello cherry), and a combination of these cherries, crème, brandy and chocolate gave us this wonderful chocolate confection named after this brandy.Īccording to the Cafe Schaefer website, “Josef Keller (1887-1981) is the inventor of the Black Forest cherry cake. It was during this time that chocolate was introduced in cakes (chocolate had just been welcomed in Spanish royal courts, and was slowly spreading to the rest of Europe). ![]() The name Schwarzwald (German for Black Forest) refers to darkened mystique inferred from the romantic German concept of Waldeinsamkeit, or forest-loneliness. History tells us that the cake took birth in the 16th century in the Black Forest Region located in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg. My curiosity to find out why and how it came to Pakistan has stayed, and has remained somewhat unanswered! And here I am, finding myself falling in love with the old faithful, yet again. Soon, the trendier desserts and evolving taste buds took over, and the Black Forest cake migrated to the back burner of my cake desires.īut recent travels managed to transport the sublime German import, now adopted and owned as Pakistani, to the forefront of my dessert dreams. ![]() My parents’ flat was opposite the bakery, and five-year-old me walked out of the bakery with marzipan and a black forest pastry, loving the cherries, whipped cream and chocolate cake combo. If there are two things German that Pakistanis are most familiar with, one has to be the character of Janoo German from a well-loved Urdu comedy drama Chhoti Si Dunya and the other, the ubiquitous yet delicious Black Forest cake.Īs a youngster, living in Karachi, I remember the opening day of Sasha’s bakery. ![]()
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