Black Forest Bun Recipe
February 6th, 2009 by chuck
I bought some baking molds at http://www.novacartusa.com/mold.html around Christmas, with plans on using them for a recipe and the blog. I never did get around to baking with them. But, last week my wife wanted me to make something for a meeting she was having at work, for about ten people. I thought this would be a good time to use these paper baking molds. I’m using the 4 3/4 X 1 3/4 molds, so they will make very large buns. Eleven to be exact.
The tough part was deciding what to bake. I thought Cinnamon buns because everyone loves them, but I wanted to bake something different. After all I had a captive audience to test a recipe with lol.
I was looking through some cookbooks for inspiration and saw a black forest cake. That was it, I decided to make black forest buns with a sweet dough recipe of mine. Filled with cherry pie filling and crumbled chocolate cake inside. I was very happy with the way they turned out. I thought they were stunning, different and tasty. Everyone at my wife’s work gobbled them down in no time.
Like I mentioned these are very large buns and if you want to make these black forest buns in a 13×9 casserole dish I would only use half the recipe and cut them smaller.
For me I would have added a little more Cherry pie filling but, my sister and wife said they had the perfect amount. So, I leave that up to you if you want to add more, go a head. If your looking for something different, give these Black Forest Buns a try.
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Splendid! These beautiful buns must be delicious!
Cheers,
Rosa
These are absolutely gorgeous! I love black forest cake, I’d have never thought to combine the flavors in this form but it’s a great idea.
What a grande idea! The buns are beautiful and I bet they’re so delicious.
Well done
Chuck? You got some real nice buns there! And that’s all I sayin’ about that!
Oh, and nice design change. I love the new look!
Are you on Twitter?
Those are really incredible.
These look so gorgeous! Visiting your site always makes me hungry
These look amazing…and you have the greatest recipe resources for each one!
Fabulous !! Musssssssssst give it a try..
Thanks for your comment on my blog anyway..
OH MY GOSH! I about fell off the chair looking at the picture of these! I have to try them soon.
Thanks so much for the wonderful blog and website-I’ve learned SO much about bread.
Ok seriously I wanted to lick my screen. Those look so good! I cant wait to try and make them myself!
I just love love love this website. Great blog especially. Fantastic Photography too! Seriously, you have an awesome page, and I wasn’t expecting to find a site like this tonight. Thanks for cheering me up.
Holly crap, those look amazing! That is the most interesting and delicious looking cinnamon roll idea I have ever heard of. Your blog is gorgeous!! I’m glad I found it through your comment. Onto the favorites it goes!
You should open up a bakery. These are as pretty looking as any at a professional bake shop.
hi!!!
love the recipes, specially this one because I’m not a fan of black forest but this combo makes me wanna try it!!
Also love love love the amazing pictures and the whole blog. Congratulations
smart way to make the buns individually. looks yummy.
Oh those are beautiful! I would have loved to have been at that meeting!
ooooo gorgeous!! My husband is here asking me to make these this weekend, he’s a blackforest fiend!!
so there’s no denying that i’m a cinnamon-bun-lover through and through, but i’d be willing to have one of these every now and again. more than willing, actually–they look luscious.
Those buns look so good! Black forest cake is one of my favorites and making a bun version is a great idea!
What a cool idea. The flavor combinations sound fun.
WOW!….creative.
This is realy a 2009 trend………..good job.
Chuck, these rolls look simply DIVINE! I WISH bakeries had rolls that look this good. The cherry filling idea is brilliant. These would be perfect for Valentine’s Day breakfast or brunch. I have a work mate who loves everything “Black Forest,” so I will try these out on him.
They are stunning, Chuck! The whole idea is brilliant! And the photos are gorgeous, as always!
I just decided to move from California to British Columbia and work with your wife!
Oooh do these ever look delicious, Chuck!! What a novel idea, I love it. I’ve also just gone trolling through some of your older posts, and I must say that it’s very inspiring. I seriously can’t wait to try making some of these gems!
why thank you very much! but i find it hard to beleive that you would buy a cake after looking at these decadent swirl buns. these are great shots, and i love that milk bottle
So here’s the deal – I refuse to make these until I can get my hands on some of those paper moulds. Secondly, would it be okay to use store-bought chocolate-cake mix because I don’t want to make a chocolate cake. I know, I sound like a spoilt child
hello there! wow this’s the first time i heard of black forest bun, some sort of black forest cake just that its bread instead?
your photos are very nice too! which nikon are you using? Mine’s d40 with a 60mm f2.8 macro lens
cheers
brad
These are truly gorgeous! My heart jumped when I saw the pics, well done!
This looks perfect! Funny enough, I’ve been thinking of Black Forest cake just recently as I was looking through my photos of Germany. Cherries…… chocolate………. yum………..
I love baking in those molds. I need to pick up some more – everything looks so good in them.
Your unique flavor combination in the rolls sounds divine.
Beautiful! The step by step really help. They must taste amazing.
Cheers,
Elra
Wow, those buns look amazing! Please let me know where to send my resume. I want to work with your wife.
Omg, your photos are sooo beautiful. Thanks for visiting me and I’m glad to find your blog, will be back for more =)
What a lovely creation! Love the presentation and they look so delicious!
Thanks for visiting my blog. Yours is so beautiful! Love your photos. Your black forest bun recipe if really great, and totally unique to me.
Chuck you ROCK!! This is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!! You really captured this is your pictures, just amazing! Your the man!!
Holy Moly, choc, cherries, in a bun. How beautiful and creative. Thanks for stopping by my site. It brought me here to yours and I’m glad. A lovely place to visit. And, the photos are enticing.
These are gorgeous. I’m going to try them for sure.
The unfortunate part of you having a captive audience to try out this amazing recipe on, is now you are going to be expected to bake for every meeting! I am so impressed with your creativity. I have seen paper molds on the King Arthur site and have been tempted by them. Thanks for visiting my site, I’m so glad you did because now I’ve found yours!
Gosh, they are beautiful!
What a great idea! Love the narrative around how you were inspired. Also, your photos are fantastic.
It’s just past midnight here and I wish it were breakfast and these would be breakfast! They are absolutely fantastic!
This is the first time I’ve visited your site and wow… this looks so good! and the photos are simply amazing. I’m going to subscribe right away.
Wow, those look amazing! and what beautiful photos!
What an awesome blog! I can’t wait to try some of your recipes! You’ll be the one to blame for all my weight gain!
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
These look amazing and so very tasty. Black forest cake is a favorite of mine, but I particularly love the individual-sized portions presented here—perfect for breakfast or snacks on the go!
What a lovely twist on the traditional cinnamon bun!
Those are absolutely gorgeous! the pictures the recipes, the drizzle of the icing & the paper cups. Black forest is my fav. cake … I wish I could have some of these without having to make them first:-(
Love your photos! Absolutely gorgeous.
Wow, it’s like you’re looking in my head! those look amazing!!
Oh my gosh…its soooo beautiful
this is genius! oohhh..how i love to bite those tasty buns
What a genius idea… I think you’ve successfully made the transition from traditional cake recipe to phenomenal new breakfast concept. I can’t wait to try it myself!
I love making homemade cinnamon buns and have been trying different ones. My son loves black forest cake so these look like something he would reallllly love. Where you get the indiv. liners for the rolls. Kudos to you and your buns.
I just wanted to let you know I these for brunch we had at church and they were such a big hit. Thank you so much for sharing these.
Oh wow do these look delicious! I’ve been wanting to make some sweet rolls, and I think these will definitely fit the bill!
WOW! I’m tearing up seeing these!
I made these last night. Without your nifty little forms, mine ended up as large as my hand.
Delicious. The cake + cherry part ended up with a bit of a chocolate bread pudding consistency, which was delicious IMHO. Will probably post pictures on my site on Friday.
Gosh, those look amazing. Love the cake/cherry/chocolate combo. And they’re beautiful to boot! YUM.
How utterly divine! What I wouldn’t give to have a munch on one of those right now…
Hello again,
I must say that I never heard of this yummy treat before, its gorgeous looking bun, I have
to try it one day.
will let you know…
thanks very much Chuck for sharing
what an interesting article thanks
Its been a while since I bookmarked these but I finally made them and posted too.http://mydiversekitchen.blogspot.com/2009/10/black-forest-buns-well-almost.html) ( Mine aren’t as pretty but they were awesome.
Thanks, Chuck.
I love this website, I have got to try this recipe, black forest buns just sounds too good to be true.
I finally made these, I had the hardest time rolling all the ingredients together, it was wet with the cherry filling and there was too much chocolate cake crumbs, I had a lot left over. I end up cutting them up anyway and letting it rise for 1 hour. It tasted good but so hard to work with…any suggestions?