Kitsch is something of my stock-in-trade. And it doesn’t get more kitsch than Black Forest gateau. Pots of cream, pints of cherry schnapps, a storm of chocolate shavings and some very baroque decoration: it ticks all my old-school boxes.
Of course, we are very familiar with the Black Forest gateau’s – BFG to its friends – punchy flavours.
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