Anyway, enough about whale mating of which I obviously have no experience of. I also have no experience of ever visiting the Black Forest in Germany but I do have plenty of experience eating the cake version of the cake. It was the first cake I asked for when I was 16 as it had alcohol in it and I always thought that it was so utterly fancy pants. I decided to make a cheesecake version for my father's birthday as he seems to like cheesecakes and I combined my own black forest cheesecake recipe with the chocolate shard technique found in the Donna Hay magazine which caught my eye immediately.