Ingredients

• 1 cup - castor sugar
• 4 eggs
• little less than 1 cup - flour(1 tbsp less)
• 1 tsp - baking powder
• 1 tbsp - cocoa powder
• 3 tbsp - milk
• 1 tsp - butter (for greasing)
• little flour for dusting the greased cake tin
• For the Icing:
• 300 g - fresh cream
• 1 tin cherries (small)
• 1 bar bitter chocolate (grated)
• 2 egg whites
• 9 tbsp - icing sugar
• 2 to 3 tbsp - rum

How to Make Easy Black Forest Cake

• Sieve the flour with baking powder and cocoa.
• Separate the whites and the yolks.
• Beat the egg whites, gradually adding in the sugar, little at a time, till it is stiff and peaks are formed.
• Beat the egg yolks and add it to the egg whites.
• Beat them together for few more minutes.
• Fold in the sieved flour and milk and mix well.
• Grease a medium sized tin and dust it with flour.
• Pre-heat the oven for a few minutes.
• Bake the cake at 200 degree C approximately for 30 minutes.
• Insert a knife in the centre, if it comes out clean, the cake is done.
• For the Icing:
• Cool the cake completely and slice it horizontally into two halves.
• Soak the two halves with some rum.
• Gently beat the fresh cream on ice , whip the cream till it thickens.
• Beat the egg whites, gradually adding in the icing sugar, till it is light and fluffy.
• Add the beaten egg whites to the cream. Deseed the cherries.
• Keep aside a few cherries for decoration and finely chop the rest.
• Add the chopped cherries to half the whipped cream.
• Evenly spread out the cream with the chopped cherries, on the bottom half of the cake.
• Press the other half over it.
• Cover the top and the sides of the cake with the kept aside cream.
• Decorate with cherries and grated chocolate.