Black Forest Cake

I am sure most of us
who like to bake have tried this cake atleast once. If you have not yet tried
this ultra light super moist cake, do try out this recipe. This was taught to
me by Mrs. Chandri Bhat . Those were the days when the teacher would make sure we
get the basics rights and I am blessed to have learnt the basics from her.

INGREDIENTS

FOR THE CAKE

FOR THE FILLING

PREPARATION

Preheat the oven to
200C

Mix the flour, cocoa
and baking powder. Sieve twice.

Beat eggs with sugar
till it is thick and 3 times the original volume

Beat in the essence

Add the flour mixture
very gently through a sieve.

Fold in the butter and
very hot water

Pour in the parchment
layered baking tray and bake for 20-22 minutes or till the skewer inserted in
the middle comes out clean

Transfer this to a
cooling rack

Invert it after it
cools down completely

Slice the cake into two
horizontally

Soak both the layers
with the soaking syrup from the cherry can

Beat the shipping cream
till you get stiff peaks

Spread some in between
the layers

Arrange few cherries on
it

Place the other layer
of the cake on this

Cover the whole cake
with cream

Sprinkle chocolate
shavings on it

Pipe some more whipping
cream and place cherries on it

Serve cold!!!

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Linking these baked goodies to Kidsdelight- Baked Snacks hosted by PJ for this month and started by Valli