Black Forest gateau
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Black Forest gateau, or Black Forest cake, is a layer cake made out of cocoa powder, cherries, Kirsch, and whipped cream, with dark chocolate as a decoration. The origins of the cake and its name are
Black Forest gateau
Black Forest
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The Black Forest is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and S
Black Forest gateau
…Although the origin of the cake's name is similarly disputed, the food writer Ursula Heinzelmann claims that it comes from the cake's resemblance to the Black Forest region's black, white, and red costume. According to a different theory, the cherries on the cake are supposed to resemble Bollenhut headwear. The first…
View from the Hohfelsen near Seebach
Black Forest farmhouse, 1898
An unmarried Black Forest woman wearing a red Bollenhut, 1898
Woods and pastures of the High Black Forest near Breitnau