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Black Forest CupcakeThe best Black Forest Cupcake recipe reaches back to my German roots. I really needed to go there for comfort food, because, it has been a long week. Supplies are running low, tempers are flaring. We’ve been dealing with high school finals, soccer try outs, and a cold has been slowly working it’s way through the family. Ugh.

I have to keep running to the store for tissues, cough medicine, sneeze medicine, vitamins, orange juice, and rental DVDs to entertain the savage 9 year old. Both of the girls, and the other grown up in my house have had the cold. And me? I haven’t gotten sick, I just haven’t had any sleep.

And now? It’s day 8 of the epidemic… and other kid came home with the sniffles… darn it! thought we were done with this.

But, as anyone with more than one kid knows… the epidemic must first run its course. All will be affected. You can quarantine them, sterilize with bleach, and load them up with Vitamin C… but they will secretly lick each other (well, they did when they were 3).

Sigh…Mommy needs a cupcake.

And not just any ordinary cupcake. Something extra wonderful, with chocolate and fruit, and a luscious topping. The Best Black Forest Cupcake Recipe. Nothing else will do.

I started with a deeply chocolate cupcake, made with both melted chocolate and cocoa powder, then I filled the cupcake with a deliciously sweet tart cherry filling. When I got to the top I hesitated a moment…. a traditional Black Forest Cake is covered with Whipped Cream, but some of my people like Buttercream…. what to do? which do I make?

This being me…. I made both. (12 of one and 12 of the other)

And then I watched them all vanish.

As always, I’ve included step-by-step instructions for baking and assembling these Black Forest Cupcakes (I’ve included recipes for both toppings, so you can choose for yourself what you want to indulge in). It’s not hard! Before you know it, you will be munching away on these wonderful treats.

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You start with a chocolate batter made from butter and unsweetened chocolate (warning… don’t let the kids lick the bowl at this point, unless you have a mean streak… unsweetened chocolate is, to quote the 9 year old “UCKY”) Add flour, sugar, butter, eggs and cocoa… a little buttermilk and boiling water. Ta Da! The perfect batter for chocolate cupcakes. Keep this recipe, you might want to use it for other things. Maybe glue it to the fridge.

As for the cherry filling… well… ok, I cheated a bit. I did use the cherry pie filling from a can. It’s quick and easy and tastes fine for the purpose. If your great Aunt Edna left you her prize winning cherry pie filling recipe, feel free to use it (and maybe share it with the rest of us?)

In Germany, Kirschwasser (Cherry Liquor) is soaked into the cake before filling and frosting. I didn’t do this… too many kids munching on the cakes… but you can if you want to

Traditional Black Forest Cake is covered in Whipped Cream… I’ve included that recipe here, because I happen to think it’s better this way (please don’t use the stuff from the spray can, it is fine for topping the kid’s cocoa, but it melts too fast to be a decent frosting). I wrote up my quick and easy Buttercream recipe below… you decide what you want to do with it. Whipped cream isn’t as nice after a day in the fridge, so if you are making these in advance, this could be a consideration.

Finally… chocolate shavings. Makes it look good, and makes it tastes good. Get your favorite chocolate bar and a veggie peeler, and shave up a bunch of curly bits.

 

Cupcake Storage

In case there are any left over…

 

Quick Vanilla Buttercream Recipe

Quick Buttercream

  • Serves: makes enough for 24 cupcakes
  • Total Time: 15 minutes

Ok… there is Shortening in this…. but … well… it works.

This is a go-to buttercream recipe when you need a buttercream that will hold up to decorating or travel…and it tastes pretty good.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup Butter
  • 1/2 cup Shortening
  • 4 cups Powdered Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • Milk

Instructions

In the bowl of a stand mixer…. Whip up the butter and 1/2 cup of powdered sugar…. with mixer going, slowly add shortening a tablespoon at a time. Add in the powdered sugar slowly… add the vanilla.

Ok… let me clarify… you are adding all the ingredients slowly, while the mixer is going… sort of alternate … a bit of this, then a bit of that.

When it’s all in, let it whip.

If it feels thick, add a few tablespoons of milk… whip more
still thick? more milk …. too thin? more sugar

Whip until it feels like buttercream… you should be able to run a finger down it, and it stays…. but not too thick!
Taste it… feel it…

Like it?

Done.

 

Step By Step Instruction for the Best Black Forest Cupcakes

With Photos!

Melt the Unsweetened Chocolate and Butter Together

A Microwave is Fine for this… don’t forget to cover it, or you’ll be cleaning

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Stir the Melted Chocolate and Butter until Smooth

Let Cool a few Minutes

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Put the Dry Stuff in a Stand Mixing Bowl

Flour, Sugar, Baking Soda and Cocoa… mix

Add in Melted Chocolate, Eggs and Vanilla

Will Look Thick

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Add the Buttermilk and Boiling Water

Mix… it will be a fluid Batter

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Use a Scoop to Fill the Cupcake Liners

About 2/3 full

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Bake 20 Minutes

Let Cool on Rack

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Scoop a Bit Out of the Top

Use a small scoop or a spoon

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Fill the Cavity with Cherry Filling

1 to 3 Cherries Plus Goo

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Cut a Bit From the Bottom of the Scooped Bit

Eat it

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Drop the Lid Back On

See…. like Magic

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Whip Cream and Sugar To Stiff Peak

Don’t over-whip and make butter

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In Germany, the Whipped Cream is generally made without sugar… Americans don’t react well to that. You decide what you want.

What? You Only Have 2 Hands?

Put your piping bag in a container to hold it while you fill it.

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Pipe On the Whipped Cream

You Can Use a Spreader if You Want

best black forest cupcake recipe

Leave a space for filling.

Drop a Cherry and some goo In the Center

mmmm

best black forest cupcake recipe

Shave Curls of Chocolate with a Vegetable Peeler

I do this onto a plate

best black forest cupcake recipe

Then Sprinkle the Chocolate Shavings onto the Cupcakes

in a decorative fashion… of course

best black forest cupcake recipe

Then Serve Them UP!

Yum

best Black Forest Cupcake recipe

Black Forest Cake History

Black Forest Cake history

Didn’t think you’d get away without learning SOMETHING, did you?

The Black Forest Cake, also known as the Black Forest Cherry Torte, is called the Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte in German. It did not get it’s name from the Black Forest of legend and Fairy Tale, rather from the Kirschwasser, Kirsch Liquor used to flavor it.

In the United States, it is seldom made with Kirsch…. in Germany, by law, it can’t be called a Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte without Kirsch.

The recipe has been around since the 1930s.




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