Black Forest - Kunju's First X'Mas Cake

Ingredients:-

For Cake
All Purpose Flour - 1/2 Cup
Cocoa Powder - 1/2 Cup
Butter - 100 gm
Powdered Sugar - 1 Cup
Eggs - 6 nos
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp

Filling & Decoration
Whipping Powder/Cream - 1 1/2 Cup
Chocolate Curls
Strawberries/Cherries (dipped in Sugar Syrup)

Syrup
Water - 1 Cup
Sugar - 1/2 Cup

Method:-

- Beat 6 eggs and beat this fluffy.
- Add powdered sugar to this and mix it well.
- Add flour to this and mix well.
- Add cocoa powder to this along with Vanilla Essence and fold this.
- Bake the mixture in a greased pan until this becomes a soft cake.
- To make the syrup boil water and add sugar to this. Make a syrup and keep this aside.
- Beat the whipped cream and make it fluffy.
- Slice the cake to 1/2 inch thickness and make three layers.
- Place the first layer and sprinkle some sugar syrup.
- Spread the whipped cream and place some cut strawberries dipped in sugar syrup into this.
- Place the second layer and continue the process.
- Place the third layer, sprinkle the syrup and spread the cream evenly.
- Spread this more thcker than the inner layers.
- Also do spread the cream on the sides of the cake.
- Finish this off by decorating this with some Chocolate Curls and Cherries/Strawberries.
- Black Forest Cake is ready to be served.