My Kitchen Experience: BLACK FOREST CAKE

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

BLACK FOREST CAKE

BLACK FOREST CAKE

Ingredients:

For The Cake:

Maida: 2 cup

Powdered Sugar: 1 Cup

Milk Maid: 2 cup

Butter: 1 cup

Thums Up: 1 cup

Baking Powder: 1 tea spoon
Baking Soda: 1 tea spoon
Cocoa Powder: 4 tsp
Milk: 5 table spoon

Fo the icing of the Cake:

Whipped Cream: 200 gm
Icing Sugar: 50 gms

Method:

Mix together whipped Cream and icing sugar togethe till they become fluffy and soft.

For Decoration & assembling of the Cake:

Grated chocolate: 10 tsp
Almond & Cashew nut: 1/4 cup(chopped finely)
Dairy Milk Chocolate: ½ cup
Water: ½ cup
Sugar: 3 tea spoon
Vanilla Essence: 2 tea spoon

METHOD:

Sieve together Maida, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, and cocoa Powder 3-4 times.
Sieve the powdered sugar once.
In a large bowl mix together powdered sugar, butter and milk maid till mixture gets fluffy.
When the mixture are done add flour mixture one tablespoon at a time & mixing it all the time
Add Thumps-UP and milk. Mix well till the batter gets Ribbon like consistency.
Pour the mix in a greased oven proof dish
Bake at micro High for 7-8 minutes. Check in between if the cake is done or not.
If the knife inserted in the center comes out clean it means your cake is done.

Bring out from the microwave and allow it cool completely. The cake will take around 3-4 hour to completely cool down.
Cut the cake horizontally into 2 pieces

For the icing of the Cake:

Mix all together all the ingredients of the icing with a hand mixer till the mixture gets soft.and fluffy

Assembling of The Cake:

Mix together water, Vanilla essence, sugar together and bring it to a boil. Allow it o cool. Your sugar syrup is ready.
In a Double boiler melt the Dairy Milk
Take one piece of cake in the plate. Spread about 2 table spoon of syrup.
Spread the whipped cream mixtire ove it.