Lockdown Cake Recipe: Make This Classic Black Forest Cake To Hone Your Baking Skill

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Join the baking bandwagon and get down to making a succulent cake for yourself instead of moping around. Here's an easy recipe to make simple black forest cake during the lockdown.

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Lockdown Cake Recipe: Make This Classic Black Forest Cake To Hone Your Baking Skill
You can easily make black forest cake at home.

Highlights

  • Are you craving for a delicious cake during lockdown?
  • Make this simple black forest cake at home.
  • This recipe will help you easily make black forest cake.

Are your Instagram feeds of people boasting their baking skills making you jealous? You are not the only one seething and wanting to make one and eat it too. This lockdown due to Coronavirus has left us with ample time to learn and improve our baking skills. So, join the baking bandwagon and get down to making a succulent cake for yourself instead of moping around. And, don't just settle for basic vanilla or chocolate cake, make a divine black forest cake, which is almost as simple as baking any ordinary tea cake.

Here's an easy cake recipe to make black forest cake to satiate your craving for an exquisite quarantine dessert.

(Also Read: This 5-Min Instant Bread Cake Recipe Will Let You Whet Your Urge For Baking)

You can bake cake at home with common ingredients. 

Simple Black Forest Cake Recipe -

Ingredients

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2 cups all-purpose flour

Half cup butter

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2 eggs, beaten

2 cups powdered sugar

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Half cup cocoa powder

1 teaspoons baking powder

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1 teaspoon baking soda

A pinch of salt

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1 cup milk

1 tablespoon oil

2 teaspoons vanilla essence

For cherry topping -

2 cups cherries

Half cup powdered sugar

2 tablespoons cornstarch

Half teaspoon vanilla extract

For Whipped Cream Frosting -

2 cups heavy whipping cream

2 tablespoons finely powdered sugar, sieved

1 tablespoon milk

Method -

Step 1 - Combine butter and sugar in a bowl and whisk well. Add beaten eggs and whisk again.

Step 2- Place a colander over the bowl and put flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt in it. Mix and pass through the colander.

Step 3 - Whisk thoroughly while adding milk in parts.

Step 5 - Pour the mixture in cake pan lined with greased butter paper. Put it in the pre-heated oven and bake at 180 degree centigrade for around 30 minutes.

Step 6 - Make cherry syrup: Juice one cup of cherries, add cherries, cornstarch and sugar, and heat in a pan till it thickens. Add half teaspoon vanilla essence and give it a good stir. Take it out of the stove and let it cool.

Step 7 - For whipped cream, mix heavy cream and sugar and whisk well (ideally with an electric whisker) till the cram turns fluffy. Add milk and whisk till it turns into whipped cream.

Cut the cake horizontally into two slices. Smear one cake slice with whipped cream and cherry syrup. Place the second slice of cake over it and spread rest of the whipped cream and cherry syrup over it.

There you have it, your own Instagram-worthy black forest cake. Feel free to decorate it with chocolate shavings and some more cherries on top.
 

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