Name: Black Forest Gateau
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vanilla vodka; 20 ml Black raspberry liqueur; 15 ml Brown/dark cacao liqueur; 7.5 ml Kirschwasser; 7.5 ml Crème de cassis; 15 ml Whipping cream

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Vanilla flavoured vodka

2/3 fl oz

Bols Black Raspberry Liqueur

1/2 fl oz

Brown/dark crème de cacao liqueur

1/4 fl oz

Kirschwasser (cherry) eau-de-vie

1/4 fl oz

Crème de cassis liqueur

1/2 fl oz

Whipping cream

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.

Prepare garnish of cacao powder.

Method

STIR first 5 ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into chilled glass.

Carefully FLOAT cream. (Lightly whip or shake sealed container before pouring cream to aerate.)

Garnish

Dust with cacao powder.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Black Forest Gateau contains 282 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
20.5% alc./vol. (41.01° proof)
24.2 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Whipping cream — Dairy

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2002 at Hush Restaurant in London, England. Hush's recipe lacked three of the essentials in a Black Forest Gâteau: kirsch, cherries and chocolate. Hence, on 28th March 2022, I created the recipe above. Hush's original Black Forest Gâteau recipe:
60ml (2oz) Vodka
22.5ml (¾oz) Chambord liqueur
22.5ml (¾oz) Crème de fraise
7.5ml (¼ oz) Crème de cassis
22.5 (¾oz) Cream

Comments & Discussion

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Jonathan Arnold 23w

Really enjoyed this. I didn't have dark creme de cacao but I assume the only thing that affected was the visuals. I also used Chambord for the raspberry liquor.

Ruth Harvey 1y

Ge-ni-us!! Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte in a glass.

Nikolaus Linder Premium Member 1y

A masterpiece in its own special way. As if you took a physical bite of the thing itself.

Nathalie O Flynn Premium Member 1y

I had all the ingredients but didn’t read the instructions 😜, better next time but still tasted delicious

I D 1y

I ran out of creme de cacao so used 50% extra volume of Mozart (milk chocolate) - very convincing BFG taste.

Cameron Carter 3y

I had no vanilla-flavored vodka, so added a few drops of Bob's Vanilla Bitters, also substituting clear for dark creme de cacao. I finally got a cream float to work! Very tasty dessert-style cocktail. Well done recipe!

Chris Brislawn 3y

This was an exercise in substitutions. No vanilla vodka so added 1/4 tsp Mexican vanilla extract. No Chambord so muddled 4 raspberries instead. Only have white creme de cacao. Simon is right: needs more cherry so added 1/2 tsp Luxardo cherry syrup and a Luxardo-on-a-cocktail-sword garnish. Added a dash of Angostura cocoa bitters, just because. Used coupes. Everything else per Simon's recipe. Wife agrees it's pretty tasty. All we need now is a Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte to enjoy with it!