BLACK FOREST CAKE

One who has eaten the best made BLACK FOREST CAKE, will never forget the taste of it till life. I ate it once in my native and from then on it was my special snack every week end. Whenever i eat a new dish or snack i have a desire to try it out on my own. So i tried many a times but i could not get the original taste of the BFC....
What a wonder!!!! The final trial was delicious. Its taste was the same as the one which i ate few months back....
I hope everyone will like it.

INGREDIENTS

For the cake:

Butter(melted and cooled) - 1/2 cup(110 gm)
Sugar(powdered to crumbs) - 1 1/4 cup(275 gm)
Egg - 2
Flour - 1 1/2 cup(140 gm)
Cocoa powder - 1/2 cup(50 gm)
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Vanilla essence - 1 tbsp
Salt - a pinch
Vinegar - 1 tbsp
Milk - 1 cup minus 1 tbsp

For filling:

Heavy cream - 1 cup
Sugar(powdered) - 4 tbsp
Vanilla essence - 1 tbsp
Cherry (seeds off) - 1/2 cup
Chocolate curls or shavings - 1 cup

METHOD
Grease a cake pan or 3 cake pans and keep ready. Pre heat oven at 350 degree C

Pour vinegar in a cup and add milk in it. Stir well and keep it aside.

Sift and keep flour,cocoa powder,baking powder,baking soda and salt.

In a bowl add melted butter and sugar.Beat well for 3 minutes,so that it gets mixed well. Its ok if it is not fluffy.

Add one egg at a time and beat well for 3 minutes.

Add half of the sour milk and vanilla essence and beat just for a minute.

Turn of the beater and fold in the sifted dry ingredients.

Use rest of the sour milk if needed to make the batter smooth.

Pour it in the cake pan and bake till a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
You can bake it as one full cake and cut it into 3 layers or you can straight away bake it as 3 separate cakes.

When the cake is ready transfer it to a cooling rack. Let it cool for few hours before cutting.

While the cake gets cooled,you can prepare for the filling.

Take cream,sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl. Keep the bowl in a cold bath i.e. inside a bowl with cold water and ice cubes.
Start beating it in low speed and then gradually increase to high.
Beat the cream till soft peaks form. Take care not to over beat and make butter. (The cream turns to pale yellow before it becomes butter.)

Cut the cherries into pieces

Keep ready the chocolate curls or shavings. (scrape the chocolate bar with a vegetable peeler or a spoon)

ASSEMBLING

Place one layer of the cake in a tray with top side bottom.
Sprinkle some cherry syrup or boiled sugar syrup.
Apply a thick layer of cream and some cherry pieces on it.

Place the second layer and do as above.

Place the final layer. Apply a layer of cream. Sprinkle chocolate curls on it and decorate it with cherries.

Serve it and enjoy the cake
Store the cake in refrigerator.