where can i buy a black forest gateaux in the uk?

Question

I love this sort of cake, but i can never find one. Anyone know any supermarkets that sells one in the uk? I think to make one, would be beyond my cooking capabilities!

Answer 1

I bet you can get a cheap imitation one in the freezer sections of a large Asda or Iceland. I doubt they'd be any good though as they're probably those Sara Lee defrost it yourself jobs. I think you're better off with a lovely rich real chocolate cake from Sainsbury's and just add some marachino cherries and cream to it.

By the way the answer who says it's easy to make one - where have you ever seen black cherry jam for sale and what on earth is cream flour?

Answer 2

Make one it is so easy here is the recipe

Cake: 4oz/100g Irish butter
8oz /225g brown sugar
4oz /100g plain chocolate
2 eggs
7oz /200g self-raising flour
pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 pint sour cream
3 tablespoons strong cold black coffee

Pastry base : 4oz/100g cream flour
pinch of salt
2oz /50g icing sugar
2 oz/50g Irish butter
1 egg yolk
a few drops of vanilla essence

Topping: 1 pint cream
1lb tin black cherries
4 table spoons black cherry jam
brandy or cherry juice
4oz/100g grated chocolate



cake: Line and grease a deep, round 9-inch tin. Cream butter and sugar well together. Melt the chocolate by putting it into a bowl and stand in a saucepan of hot water over a gentle heat. Beat melted chocolate into creamed mixture. Add the eggs. one at a time. Sift flour, salt and cinnamon together and fold lightly into mixture with the sour cream and cold coffee. Pour into prepared cake tin and bake for1 hour and 25 minutes .When baked cool on a wire rack.

Pastry base: Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl and bind until the mixture forms a stiff. roll the pastry onto a floured board worktable until pastry is about the same size as the base of the tin. Lay out on baking sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes.

Assemble and decorate: Split the cake into 3 layers. Whip cream until it holds its shape. Drain the cherries, reserve 8 for decoration and remove the stones from the remainder. Put pastry on serving plate and spread the pastry with black cherry jam. Soak the cakes with sprit used. Put one layer of cake on top of coated pastry. spread a layer of cream with half the stoned cherries. Put the second layer of cake on the gateau and add another layer of cream and cherries .Finish with the top cake layer.

To complete: Put some cream into pastry piping bag with a star pipe attached, and reserve this for the decoration; mask the entire cake with the remaining cream and press on the grated chocolate. Decorate the top with piped rosettes of cream and the reserved whole black cherries.

Answer 3

Make one it is so easy here is the recipe

Cake: 4oz/100g Irish butter
8oz /225g brown sugar
4oz /100g plain chocolate
2 eggs
7oz /200g self-raising flour
pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 pint sour cream
3 tablespoons strong cold black coffee

Pastry base : 4oz/100g cream flour
pinch of salt
2oz /50g icing sugar
2 oz/50g Irish butter
1 egg yolk
a few drops of vanilla essence

Topping: 1 pint cream
1lb tin black cherries
4 table spoons black cherry jam
brandy or cherry juice
4oz/100g grated chocolate

Answer 4

That's because your a midnight rider. Chocolate only grows in forests in the day time, while the sun is high in the sky. It all gets eaten by night time which is why you have never seen it.

Answer 5

Like was said before make it one its simple make a simple chocolate sponge sandwich fill with cream and cranberrys cover in cream cover in chocolate shavings and put purried frute in the middle on the top with whiped cream round the edge,

Answer 6

Asda do them and Iceland. Check the freezer department.

Answer 7

Go to Iceland.They have them in the frozen section with other cakes and desserts and they are reasonably priced.

Answer 8

Local suppermarket

Answer 9

iceland the shop not the country

Answer 10

Sainsburys do one in their frozen food section - and it's good!