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  • - Hey, dudes, I'm Hilah.

  • And today on Hilah Cooking,

  • we are making a Black Forest Trifle.

  • This is a dessert that has all of the elegance

  • and alcohol of a Black Forest Cake,

  • but it's a lot quicker to throw together.

  • Especially if you happen to think ahead

  • and freeze a chocolate pound cake about a month ago,

  • which I did.

  • (energetic music)

  • (bell dings)

  • (energetic music)

  • We're gonna start out by whipping some cream.

  • Some heavy cream in a bowl.

  • And, whenever you're whipping cream,

  • you wanna have the cream very cold.

  • And if you have room in your freezer, I don't,

  • you wanna chill your bowl and your beater, too.

  • Anyway, we'll start out on a low speed

  • until it starts to thicken up.

  • And then you can increase the speed.

  • That's just so you don't end up, like,

  • spraying cream all over the place.

  • So, we'll do that.

  • (machine whirring)

  • So, it's thickening up.

  • I'm gonna sprinkle in some powdered sugar.

  • And a little vanilla extract.

  • And then beat it some more on high

  • until it's nice, stiff peaks.

  • Voluminous peaks.

  • (machine whirring)

  • All right, I think we're there.

  • Definitely wanna stop

  • before you end up with sweet, vanilla-flavored butter.

  • Although that would be really yummy to make cookies with.

  • But, so this is what it's,

  • see, it's like a Dairy Queen Blizzard.

  • You could just dump it upside down,

  • and it'll just stay in the bowl.

  • I'm scared, okay. (laughs)

  • Anyway, this is what stiff peaks look like.

  • All right, before we get started on the layering, actually,

  • I need talk about

  • the thing that makes this a Black Forest thing.

  • So, I've got cherries here

  • that have been soaking overnight in Kirsch.

  • And Kirsch is a cherry brandy.

  • There's really, only one real brand, I think.

  • I mean, you can buy, like, cherry liqueurs,

  • which are a lot sweeter.

  • This is not sweet.

  • This is just booze made out of cherries.

  • So, it smells like cherries, but it tastes like liquor.

  • If you are making this for kids, don't give this to kids.

  • There's a lot of booze in it, actually.

  • You could just use some cherry juice instead of this.

  • That's why I say it's a very elegant,

  • grown-up kind of dessert.

  • 'Cause it's the kind that gets ya a little bit buzzed.

  • So, I just used some pitted, frozen cherries

  • because they're not in season right now.

  • And also, who wants to pit all those stupid cherries?

  • So, I'm gonna try to do this

  • without making a fool and a idiot of myself.

  • I'm gonna drain off the liqueur

  • and the cherry juice.

  • It's all mixed together.

  • Okay, good, good, it worked.

  • Not too much of a fool of myself was made.

  • And then I've got my trifle bowl.

  • Usually, like, a trifle dish is a lot deeper than this.

  • I'm gonna probably end up making two of this size.

  • But, any, like, straight-sided dish will work.

  • Just 'cause you wanna see some of the layers in there,

  • and it's a little bit pretty.

  • So, I'm gonna cover the bottom of this

  • with cubes of my Chocolate Pound Cake.

  • I made this recipe, I don't know,

  • a few weeks back.

  • So, you can get that, you can make your own,

  • you can buy one.

  • You can buy a chocolate sponge cake at some bakery.

  • It's just, like, a plain cake.

  • If it's a little bit stale, all the better.

  • Because then that's more room for it to soak up booze.

  • (funky music)

  • And then, we're gonna drizzle

  • a little bit of this boozy cherry juice.

  • Put a few cherries down, of course.

  • And then, a nice, thick layer of whipped cream.

  • And try to, kinda,

  • seal everything around the edges.

  • And then we'll just repeat

  • more chocolate, liqueur, cherries, whipped cream

  • until your dish is full

  • and you end it with whipped cream.

  • And then I'll show you how to

  • decorate it with chocolate shavings.

  • (funky music)

  • Okay, once you've got your whole top

  • covered there with some whipped cream,

  • I've got a dark chocolate bar.

  • Armed with nothing but a regular vegetable peeler,

  • I'm gonna try to make some

  • pretty-looking chocolate shavings.

  • And, I think that

  • the little chocolate shavings

  • are partly why it's called Black Forest Cake?

  • I mean, I guess, like, the Black Forest in Germany

  • is known for having cherry trees in it.

  • But, to me, this always has looked like,

  • like the bark of a tree.

  • So, I like to think that that's

  • where it comes from.

  • And, you could make this ahead of time.

  • It actually, trifles are great that way.

  • You can make them, like, a day in advance,

  • and they just get better.

  • But I would say, if you're gonna do that,

  • decorate it right before you serve it.

  • Okay, I think that looks pretty good.

  • So, then, obviously, if this was cherry season,

  • you would want to decorate the top with some fresh cherries.

  • But, since it is not,

  • I bought some ridiculously expensive,

  • of these Luxardo Maraschino Cherries.

  • They are more like a candied cherry than a,

  • the regular, like, bright red maraschino cherries.

  • They don't have any food coloring in them.

  • But they do have a much nicer cherry flavor.

  • A real cherry flavor.

  • And just, plop a couple of these around.

  • So, if you like this recipe,

  • you might also like my Classic Raspberry Trifle recipe.

  • I'll link to that.

  • Did that last year for Christmas.

  • I love trifles for Christmas,

  • 'cause it reminds me of my grandma.

  • 'Cause that's, like, she didn't really cook very much,

  • but she loved to eat.

  • So a trifle was something she could manage.

  • This recipe and all my recipes

  • are always available on hilahcooking.com

  • along with extra tips

  • and, I dunno, cool stuff.

  • Pictures of tits.

  • Just kidding.

  • It's not a porn site.

  • Thanks so much for watching.

  • Don't forget to subscribe.

  • And, let's give this Black Forest Trifle a taste.

  • I'm gonna get,

  • I'm gonna eat this cherry.

  • (bell dings)

  • Oh, boy.

  • (energetic music)

  • Oh, man.

  • (inhales)

  • I'm just gonna have to eat the whole thing, I guess.

  • Since I got my germs all in it already.

  • (energetic music)

  • Mmm.

  • Mmm, mm, mmm!

  • I love boozy cake.

  • I love whipped cream.

  • I love cherries.

  • I love chocolate.

  • And most of all, I love you.

  • Thanks for watching.

  • See you next time.

  • Bye!

  • (energetic music)

- Hey, dudes, I'm Hilah.

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