Black Forest Cake

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Ingredients

All Purpose flour/Maida: 1 ½ Cups
Coco powder: 3/4 Cup
Baking Soda: ½ Tea Spoon
Baking Powder: 1 Tea Spoon
Egg: 3
Sugar:3/4 Cup
Milk: 1/2 to 1 Cup
Melted Butter: 3/4 Cup
Chocolate Shavings: For Garnish
Cherry: For Garnish
For Frosting
Whipping Cream:2 Cups
Powdered Sugar: 4 Table Spoon
Vanilla Essence: 1/4 Tea Spoon
For Soaking Cake
Sugar Syrup or Cherry Syrup

Cooking Time: 35 - 40 minutes
Method
Mix all purpose flour, coco powder, baking soda and baking powder.  Sift everything together  and keep aside

Prepare a cake tin by spreading some butter on all sides and then dusting it with some all purpose flour.  
Tilt and remove the excess flour from the cake tin
Beat eggs and sugar until it becomes smooth

To this add melted butter and 1/2 cup milk and beat again.  
To this add the sifted flour mix and combine well. If you feel the batter is too thick add little more milk.

Preheat the oven at 170C
Pour the batter to the prepared cake tin and bake for about 30 to 35 minutes

Insert a tooth pick to the center of the cake and if it comes out clean then the cake is done
Take it out of the oven and let it cool down 
Trim the crust from top and cut the cake horizontally into 3 layers

Pour the whipping cream to a bowl.  Add sugar and vanilla essence and beat until it becomes stiff

Now to assemble the cake
Keep all the things ready, whipped cream, cherry syrup cake and cake decorations

Place a layer of cake on the setting plate

Drizzle some sugar syrup or cherry syrup on the layer of cake.

I added about 3 to 4 table spoon of cherry syrup on each layer

Put 4 to 5 table spoons of whipped cream on the cake layer and spread well

You can place a few cherries if you wish to or else place the next layer of cake, drizzle the cherry syrup and then spread the whipped cream. 

Place the last layer of cake, drizzle  sugar syrup/cherry syrup and put whipped cream and spread all around the cake 
Put some of the whipped cream in a piping bag and garnish as per your imagination
Sprinkle the chocolate shavings and place the cherry on top
Serve chilled

Note:
Cherry syrup is the syrup in which the cherries are kept. When you buy tinned cherries you get the syrup too.
If you don't have cherry syrup just use plain sugar syrup. 
The traditional recipe of black forest cake requires little rum mixed in sugar syrup/cherry syrup
Baking time may vary depending on the oven, so adjust it accordingly