Yes, I made it. All by myself!

This morning, I was at moms place and I felt like making something so I got together all the ingredients and decided to make Black Forest Cake. I know, it’s become so typical these days, thanks to bakeries like Sweet Chariot and Cake Walk, but nevertheless, it’s exciting to make a layered cake. It’s quite an adventure that begins when you wonder whether the cake will come out from the pan in one piece to assembling the layers and slathering it with whipped cream.

It was well worth the wait and everyone at home got just one slice each, but they loved it. Although there are numerous recipes for this, the one I’ve explained below is what I did, and it was with dramatically good results.

In case you didn’t know, the basic cake for black forest tastes much better if it’s fatless. That’s because fatless cakes refrigerate well, and do not become hard. Also, they’re more porous and they can absorb all the liquid you drench on them to keep them moist.

So, here goes.

Ingredients for Cake (make 2 of these)

3 eggs
1 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup hot milk
3/4 cup maida + 1/4 cup cocoa sifted together with 1 tsp baking powder
vanilla essence

• Break the eggs into a clean bowl and beat them using an electric egg beater until they’re foamy and acquire a light lemony colour.
• Add the sugar and continue beating on high for about 5 minutes until the mixture is thick.
• Add essence and slowly fold in flour+cocoa mixture and beat on low for a little while.
• Add the hot milk and mix properly.
• Bake at 200 degrees centigrade for about thirty minutes
• When cake is done, cool and invert on a plate

Icing

Fresh Cream

Sugar

Ice cubes

Beat the fresh cream with sugar over ice cubes until thick. Keep aside.

Decoration

1 tin cherries

grated choclate

Assembling

Moisten each cake with the sweetened sugar syrup present in the cherry tin can. Spread haf the cream over one cake, arrange the cherries and sprinkle grated chocolate over it.

Place the other cake on top. Spread the whipped cream all over the cake, and sides, decorate with cherries and grated chocolate.

There was not a single piece left on the plate in just ten minutes!