Eggless Black Forest Cake

Ingredients:

Self rising flour.........................1 1/2 cup
Cocoa powder..........................1/2 cup
Baking powder.........................3 tsp
Condensed milk........................1 can
Warm Milk..............................3/4 cup
Melted butter...........................1/4 cup
Whip cream.............................3 cup
Vanilla extract..........................1/2 tsp
Confectioner sugar.....................2 Tbsp
Chocolate shaving......................1 cup
Cherries in syrup .......................1 cup

Method:

For the Chocolate cake:



1. Preheat oven on 380 degree F.
2. Sift all the dry ingredients ( flour, cocoa powder, baking powder) well.
3. In another bowl mix all the wet ingredients ( condensed milk, melted butter, warm milk) nicely.
4. Now gradually add flour mixture in it and fold it with spoon in one direction. DO NOT USE  ELECTRIC BLENDER. 
5.  Take a cake pan and grease with oil and dust with little bit of flour or you can use parchment paper as a liner.
6. Pour mixture into the pan and bake on 380 degree for 12-15 min. Check with knife or toothpick. If it comes out clean then your cake is ready.
7.Take out the cake on a cooling rack. Let it rest for 5 minutes. Run a small knife or metal spatula around the sides of the pans and invert cakes onto lightly greased racks. Remove parchment paper. Reinvent cakes onto cooling rack. Let cool for at least 1 1/2 hours or until completely cooled.
8. Soak the cake nicely with spoon by applying syrup from cherry bottle ( you can also use sugar syrup instead)
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For frosting:

1. Chill the bowl and whisk attachment of a stand mixer for 20 min. in the refrigerator or 5 min. in the freezer. 

2.Pour the heavy cream into the bowl and whisk on medium-high speed until it just starts to thicken. Slow the speed down to medium and gradually pour in the sugar. Continue to whisk until soft peaks form.

3. Add the vanilla extract and continue to whisk by hand until the cream is smooth, and stiff peaks form (the cream will stand up straight when the whisk is raised).

Assemble the cake:



Take one part of the cake and apply thick layer of  whip frosting. Add cherries on the top and gently put another layer of cake. Now cover the whole cake with whip frosting and add chocolate shavings on all the sides. Now take whip frosting in piping bag with star nozzle and make rounds on the cake and decorate with cherries.