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Black Forest Cake

Ingredients
For Cake
  • All Purpose Flour (Maida) - 3/4 cup
  • Coco Powder - 3/4 cup
  • Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Eggs - 4 nos
  • Sugar - 1 cup (powdered)
  • Unsalted butter (in room temperature) - 100 gm
  • Salt - A pinch
  • Vanilla essence - 1/4 tsp
  • Milk - 1/4 to 1/2 cup
For Assembling and Decoration
  • Whipping Cream - 200 gms:
  • Canned Cherry - 1 tin
  • Sugar - 1/2 cup
  • Grated / Shaved Chocolate - 100 gms: 
Preparation Method
  1. Separate the egg white and yolk and keep aside.
  2. Sieve together the dry ingredients - maida, coco powder, baking powder and salt and keep aside.
  3. Beat the egg whites with 1/4 cup sugar till thick peaks form and keep aside.
  4. In a large bowl beat the egg yolks.
  5. Add sugar and butter and mix at the lowest speed again for a 2-3 mins (till the sugar and butter dissolves).
  6. Add the dry ingredients little by little to the egg-sugar-butter mix and blend at a medium speed for 4-5 mins.
  7. Gradually add egg white mix and mix with a wooden spoon or spatula (preferably fold-in method).
  8. Add milk, if required to achieve the ribbon consistency for batter.
  9. Add vanilla essence and mix for 1 more min.
  10. Preheat oven to 350 degree F (180 degree Celsius).
  11. Grease the baking tray with butter and dust with maida. Pour the batter to the tray.
  12. Bake in oven for 35-40 mins at 350 degree F(180 degree Celsius). Prick the center of the cake with a sharp knife and it should come out clean, if done.
  13. Take the cake out from oven, invert to a wire rack and allow it to cool.
Assembling and Decoration
  1. Add the syrup from canned cherry to 1/2 cup sugar and bring to boil. Add 1/4 cup water, if required. Boil till the sugar dissolves completely. Allow the sugar syrup to cool down. (If you are using glazed cherry, use water to make sugar syrup and add some finely chopped cherries to the sugar syrup)  
  2. Cut the cake horizontally into two equal pieces.
  3. Brush both the pieces with sugar syrup. Apply the sugar syrup 2-3 times so that the cake become really soft.
  4. Beat the whipping cream as per the instruction given on the packet. (Keep the bowl and beater in refrigerator for about 30 mins: before whipping the cream. For better result keep the mixing bowl on ice cubes and beat the cream.)
  5. Apply a thick layer of cream on the top of the bottom piece of the cake with a knife or spatula.
  6. Place the other piece on the top of the cream and press down gently with the hand.
  7. Cover the entire cake with the whipping cream. (If you find it difficult to apply cream over the cake, keep the cake and whipped cream in refrigerator for about 15 mins: and then cover the cake with cream).
  8. Spread grated chocolate or chocolates shaves all over and on the sides of the cake.
  9. Take whipping cream in pumping bag and decorate the cake as per your imagination.
  10. Garnish the cake with cherries.
  11. Refrigerate the cake for about 30 mins.
  12. Cut the cake and enjoy the delicious home-made Black Forest Cake.

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