🗳️ The great debate
Cherries, kirsch and whipped cream from the actual Black Forest, or a Texas layer cake buried in coconut-pecan frosting that was never German at all. Pick your slice.
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The real Black Forest cake: three layers of chocolate sponge brushed with kirsch, sour cherries and a light vanilla cream, covered in cream and dark chocolate shavings, the way the Black Forest's own tourism board makes it.
Not from Germany at all: three light layers made with sweet baking chocolate and buttermilk, stacked with a cooked coconut-pecan custard frosting, the cake a 1957 Dallas newspaper recipe made famous.
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