Black Forest Sweet Heart Tarts is a traditional British recipe for a classic Valentine's day treat of heart-shaped pieces of chocolate cake topped with cherry pie filling, cream, slivered almonds and chocolate shavings. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic British version of: Black Forest Sweet Heart Tarts.
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Black Forest Sweet Heart Tarts: Classic German-derived tart of a chocolate cake base topped with cherries and cream shaped into a heart for Valentine's say. Simple to prepare and guaranteed to go down a treat.
The tarts below are based on a chocolate cake, and any of the following may be used for the base: Chocolate Roulade base, , Chocolate Doberge Cake, Lamb Mould Cake, Vanilla Cake Mix Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Cake Mix Cake, Chocolate Sponge Cake, Chocolate Devil's Food Cake or Brownie Mix Brownies.
Ingredients:
8 slices of chocolate cake (each about 3cm [1 in] thick and about 5cm [2 in] square)
250ml double (heavy) cream, whopped
4 tbsp icing sugar, sifted
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
225g (8 oz) tin of cherry pie filling (or tinned black cherries)
1/2 tsp almond extract
chocolate curls, to decorate
slivered almonds, to decorate
Method:
Take the cake sliced and cut into heart shapes.
Place the cream in a bowl and beat with the icing sugar until soft peaks form. Fold in the vanilla extract.
Turn the cherry pie filling into a bowl and mix in the almond extract.
Take each piece of shaped cake in turn and spread over the cherry pie filling. Top with the whipped cream.
Finally decorate with chocolate curls and slivered almonds.
