Ingredients

• For the cake: 175g - all purpose flour (maida)
• 100g - powdered sugar
• 25g - cocoa powder
• 1 tsp - chocolate essence
• 1 tsp - soda
• 1/2 cup - refined oil
• Salt, a pinch
• 1 cup - curd
• For the filling:
• 8 - Arrowroot biscuits
• 2 tbsp - mix fruit jam
• 1 tbsp - sugar
• 1 tbsp - refined oil
• For icing:
• 200g - icing sugar
• 100g - white butter (home-made)
• 100g - drinking chocolate

How to Make Plain Black Forest Cake

• For the filling:
• Mix biscuit powder, jam, sugar and refined oil and warm it slightly.
• For the icing:
• Keep little plain butter aside. Beat the butter and icing sugar till soft. Add chocolate powder and mix well.
• For making the cake:
• Sieve maida, powdered sugar and soda together at least three times.
• Add refined oil, curd and essence and mix it well.
• Beat it in one direction for 15 minute and keep this batter aside.
• Take a cake tin and grease it with butter.
• Put butter paper according to its size and dust with flour.
• Now put the batter in the cake tin and bake it in a preheated oven at 180 C/350 F for 45 minutes.
• After one hour of removing it from the oven, cut the cake horizontally through the centre.
• Take the first part and put the filling and keep the second part over it.
• Spread the icing mixture equally on all sides.
• Decorate it with plain butter.
• Makes cake of approx. 1.5 pounds