Black Forest Waffles

Black Forest Waffles

Recipe reference from Krups

 

 
Ingredients:

Waffle batter 240 g flour
20 g bitter cocoa powder
1 large pinch of salt
4 medium eggs
75 g butter
12 g baking powder
300 ml whole milk
60g caster sugar 
1 tsp vanilla extract
 
Cream
500g sour cherries in syrup (or red cherries in syrup)
5 cl kirsch
2 vanilla pods
35 cl of liquid cream
100 g dark chocolate 70% chipped or shredded
25g icing sugar

Method:
1. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder together. Mix eggs with milk with melted butter and vanilla extract. Make a well in the dry ingredients and mix in the wet ingredients till well combined. Cover with plastic wrap and stand at room temperature for at least 30minutes.
2. Preheat waffle iron to thermostat 7 for Krups, spray with cooking spray before baking and spoon batter into waffle iron. Cook for 4-5minutes.

Whipping cream preparation:
Drain the cherries in syrup and place in a bowl. Drizzle with a small ladle and kirsch syrup cherries, marinate 1 hour. Whip the cream. Stir in sugar and vanilla.

Assembling the cake waffles:
Place a square of 4 waffles in a round or square dish, drizzle with juice macerated cherries.
Coat the surface of whipped cream, place a layer of drained cherries. Cover with a second square waffles, drizzle with macerated cherries juice. Garnish as above with whipped cream and cherries.
Take the baked waffle sole, cut into small squares, garnish with a dollop of whipped cream and a cherry.

Spread the dark chocolate chips and square waffle on the cake, refrigerate 2-3 hours before serving.