Black forest cake

BLACK FOREST CAKE RECIPE

 

 

INGREDIENTS

•  Butter 1/2 cup
• Unsweetened condensed milk 1/3 cup
• Sugar1/2 cup
• All purpose flour 1 cup
• Unsweetened coco powder 4-5tbsp
• Baking powder 1tbsp
• Baking soda 1/4 tbsp
• Vanilla extract 1 tbsp

FOR CHERRY SYRUP

• Water 2 tbsp

• Sugar 1tbsp

• Cherries 1/4 cup

For Butter cream frosting

• Butter 1cup

• Powdered sugar 4 cups

• Vanilla extract 1 tbsp

For decorating

• Cherries 6-7 

• Dark chochlate curls

Others

• Cake tray

RECIPE

1. Preheat oven at 350 F.
2. In a mixing bowl take butter & sugar,make a cream of butter & sugar by hand blender,till the mixture is light & fluffy.
3. Add vanilla essence & blend again.
4. In a separate bowl take all purpose flour,baking powder,baking soda & coco powder.sieve them together & mix well.
5. Now add this mix to the batter of butter & sugar,along with condensed milk little by little & blend it for 2-3 mins.
6. Pour this mixture in a greased baking dish.keep dish in the oven bake it for 35 mins.
7. To check if the cake is ready insert a knife in the center,if it comes out clean it means the cake is done,otherwise u need to bake it more.

Delicious chocholate cake is ready.

Cherry syrup

For cherry syrup,all u need to do...

• Blend cherries,water & sugar in a blender,see it was that easy.

Butter cream frosting

• Take 4 cups of sugar in a bowl.
• Add 1&1/2 cups of butter(at room temp) in this sugar.
• Add few drops of vanilla extract.
• Mix all these together,with the help of a hand blender.
• Butter cream frosting is ready,if u need to add any color u can do at this point,but i am gonna go with traditional all white frosting.

Remaining steps

• Cut the cooled chocolate cake horizontally in two portions.set these two portions on the work surface.
• Now apply a layer of chery syrup on these layers,properly..u need to soak the cake in this syrup,just enough...but not toooo much.
• Now transfer the bottom layer of the cake in the serving tray,apply cream frosting on top.
• Now cover this with the other part of the cake.
• Now cover the cake generously with cream from all sides.
• Now decorate the cake with dark chocolate curls/or grated chocolate as u can see in the pic,just be creative.top it with cherry.

Delicious eggless black foreast cake is ready!!Now go & try,trust me it tastes yumm.m!!