Black Forest Cake, Cherry Zabaglione, Chocolate Granache

This is Keith's Black Forest Cake with Cherry Zabaglione and Chocolate Granache that he made for the cake making competition organized by Overclockers Forum Australia.

Ingredients
Making the chocolate cake mix. Melting chocolate and butter over a double boiler.
Flour added
Egg whites beaten to stiff peak and folded into cake mixture.
Cake tin in the oven.
Cooking the cherries with the cherry liqueur.
Start of the cherry zabaglione. 6 egg yolks. To follow: caster sugar, cherry liqueur.
Cherry filling finished.
Chocolate cake out of the oven.
Cherry zabaglione being made on double boiler.
Cake cut in half ready to receive filling. More cherry liqueur sprinkled on chocolate cake.
Cherry zabaglione goes on cake.
Cherry mixture goes on cake.
Chocolate granache under construction Melt dark chocolate and mix cream in.
Finished chocolate granache.
Chocolate granache spread on cake.
Finished cake.

Here is a picture of the cake being served. Luckily we had some guests over for lunch the next day .

Where was I when the cake was artfully done? Sick in bed! haha. So, this is basically Keith's post on the overclockers forum which I conveniently sought permission from to post on my blog. How did Keith go in the competition? He came out 2nd! Yay!