Recipe : Homemade Black Forest Cake | The Third Anniversary Special Recipe Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook time: 50 minutes Recipe Category: Cake, Dessert Yield: 24 cm Cake

About The Recipe :  Third Anniversary Special Recipe - Home Black Forest Cake, consist three layers of chocolate cake with whipped cream and red cherries filling and decorated with chocolate shavings.

Ingredients :

Maida \ All Purpose Flour - 1 and 1/2 cup unsweetened Cocoa Powder - 3/4 cup Baking Powder - 1 tsp Cooking Soda - 1 tsp Butter Milk - 1 cup (or 1 cup milk + 1 tbsp vinegar) Large Egg - 2 no Castor Sugar - 1 cup Oil - 1/2 cup Vanilla Essence - 1 and 1/2 tsp Whipped Cream - 3 cup (+ or -) Red Cherries - 1 tin Sugar - 1/2 cup Cornflour - 1 tbsp Chocolate Shavings - required

Method :

Preparation : Grease and dust the 24cm cake dish and keep aside. (Image 1) Sieve the flour with cocoa powder, baking powder and cooking soda for two to three times and keep aside. (Image 2)

Steps To Make The Black Forest Cake : Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius.  To make the black forest cake batter, in a mixing bowl, add the butter milk, eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla essence, beat till the sugar dissolved. (Image 3 and 4) Then add in the sieved flour mixed, beat till combined and the black forest cake batter is ready to bake. (Image 5 and 6)

Transfer the batter in to a prepared cake dish. (Image 7) Bake in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes. (Image 8) Test the cake by inserting a tooth pick in the centre, it should comes out clean. Cool the cake in the cake dish for 10mins, then run a sharp knife around the sides and invert on wire rack to cool completely.

Meantime, to make the red cherries filling, heat the red cherries with its sugar syrup (also reserve 10 cherries and 3/4 cup of cherries sugar syrup separately) and sugar, until the sugar dissolved. (Image 9) Separately dissolve the corn flour with required water, add the cornflour water into the red cherries and cook until sauce consistency. (Image 10 and 11) Cool the red cherries filling completely.

Slice the cooled cake into three equal layers. (Image 12)

To moist the cake, brush the reserved red cherries syrup evenly on each cake layers. (Image 13) To arrange the cake, spread first layer of cake with required whipped cream and half of the red cherries filling, repeat the same for the second layer. (Image 14) Then place the third layer on the top and cover the cake with whipped cream. Sprinkle the chocolate shaving on the top and sides, finally decorate with reserved cherries and ready.

Serving Suggestion : Serve with Samosa.

By Kalais Homemade black forest cake, chocolate black forest cake, red cherries filling