I was going to make Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte today (Black Forest Cherry Cake). I had the recipe all set out, and the ingredients carefully lined up in a row. The 2 cans of cherry filling, the sugars, the cooling chocolate cake segments.
Draining the first can of cherries was no problem, I put the cherries in one bowl and the “liquid” in the other bowl. Then I opened the other can of cherries. I would say, about half way through draining the liquid I noticed the “sell by” date on the top of the can 09/04… as in September of 2004. Carefully, I tasted the “liquid.” There is a reason those dates are on top of cans.
Mom suggested I “cut the recipe in half” (how exactly?!) because “we don’t need all that sugar anyway.” Yes Mom.
So, once my 9-inch-cake rounds finish cooling, I am going to go downstairs and try and salvage the cherry disaster. I do not have any “liquid” to speak of, and half the number of recommended cherries. This should be interesting.
————Later—————-
The cake has turned out VERY SPECIAL looking, but so far everything that I’ve tasted from the crumbs that have fallen off has been delicious. It is in the fridge for the time being, I didn’t want all that whipping cream to get too warm, and it is on a drippy pan incase anymore crumbs want to jump.
I can’t deny it is special looking, like a volcano about to collapse into itself. But the crumblies taste good… I would know, there were lots of little crumblies…
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