Eggless Black Forest Cake

Yummy.........isn't it????????

Ingredients
Milkmaid-400gms
Maida-225gms
Butter-125gms
Cocoa powder-3 to 4 tbsps
Aerated cola drink-200ml(use Coca cola)
Baking powder-1tsp
Soda-bi-carb-1tsp

For decoration
Fresh cream-1cup
Tinned cherries-1 small tin
Chocolate bar/cooking chocolate-min 5/as required(use Cadbury)


Method
Lightly grease and flour the baking tin.
Preheat oven at 150 C.
Melt butter and allow to cool.
Add milkmaid to it and mix.
Sift together maida,baking powder,soda and cocoa powder.
Mix maida with milkmaid-butter mixture alternating with cola till maida and cola are over.
Immediately pour into the prepared tin and bake for 30-40 mins at 150 C or till done.
Cool and slit horizontally into two.
Sprinkle the syrup liberally on the two halves of the cake.
Use also the syrup in the cherry tin on the cakes.
Spread the whipped cream on the lower part of the cake.
Deseed the cherries and arrange them liberally on the cream.
Place the other part on top.
Spread the cream liberally on the sides and top .
Sprinkle the grated chocolate on the sides and top and arrange some more cherries on top.
Refrigerate and serve it cool.

While the cake is cooling keep the following ready

• Whip the cream to spreading/piping consistency and keep in the fridge.
• Make sugar syrup with 100ml water and 100gms sugar,not very thin and not thick consistency
• Cut the chocolate either with knife or a big grater and refrigerate
• Seperate the cherries from the syrup and deseed them