This month is a special month for Blogging Marathon, Yeah it is a month long marathon and sure you all enjoy this virtual treat. Valli who is a brain child behind this, had made this event more interesting by dividing this long marathon into 4 themes - Occasional, Traditional, Seasonal and miscellaneous.. Today I happy to share eggless black forest cake, which is always a birthday attraction between all of us and I bake this for my friend Savitha’s Birthday and everyone enjoyed it.. Try this recipe and no one will find out it is eggless..
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time:
Serves: 12 ~ 15
DRY INGREDIENTS:
3 cups of flour
2 cups of sugar
⅔ cup of cocoa
1 ½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
WET INGREDIENTS:
2 cups of cherry coke for cherry flavor(*)
1 ½ cup water
¾ cup fresh curd, beaten
¾ cup fresh curd, beaten
1 cup of vegetable oil
4 tbs white vinegar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp almond extract
For Whipped cream frosting:
1 large carton Whipping cream, Keep refrigerate until ready to use
3 tbsp Caster sugar
For Garnish
1 jar Maraschino cherries
1 chocolate bar, keep refrigerated until ready to use
Method:
Preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 350. Line 3 8-inch round cake pans with parchment paper circles. Lightly grease the pans and set aside.
- (*)In a small sauce pan, bring cherry coke to boil on medium high heat. Let it simmer on medium high heat until it reduces to ½ cup of syrup or for 10 minutes. Let it cool a little.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the liquid ingredients.
- Sift in the flour, baking soda, sugar, salt and cocoa powder. Whisk until all combined.
- Separate the batter between the 3 cake pan equally.
Cooking:
- Bake for 15-17 minutes, until the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Let the cakes stand in the pans for about 10 minutes before taking them out. After taking the cakes out of the pan, cool them completely before frosting.
Preparing Cherries:
- Drain 1 cup of pitted maraschino cherries from their syrup before 15 minues, reserving the syrup for later use in the recipe.
For Whipped cream frosting:
- In a mixing bowl, take cream and sugar. Mix until sugar dissolves and refrigerate for 15 ~ 30 minutes before whipping the cream.
- After 30 minutes. Whip the cream until it form a stiff peak and again refrigerate until ready to use.
Layering / Assembling the cake:
- Place 1 cake layer on a serving platter. Sprinkle with 2 tbsp of reserved syrup.
- Spread with ¼ of the whipped cream and press ½ the cherries into the cream.
- Put second cake layer on top and repeat steps.Top with final cake layer and sprinkle with remaining syrup.
- Cover the top and sides with remaining whipped cream.
- Grate the chocolate bar and sprinkle it on the sides or all over the cake.Garnish with a few more maraschino cherries. Place in the fridge until needed.
Wow! that is one good looking black forest cake!!
Lovely cake..it's 5 am here and trust me I feel like having this fantastic cake...wow looks really gorgeous.
Tempting cake.Like to grab from the screen.
This is my favorite cake... You have made it perfectly.. Looks beautiful!!
Completed enjoyed your cake saras.Yumm.
Wow...awesome luking cake n wonderful cliks.its just tempting...
Looks very delicious! I have never made black forest cake at home and this recipe sure does sounds yummy! Bookmarking it 🙂
Yummy I love Cakes very Much Saras 🙂
Looks awesome..
simply marvellous.. need a slice of that now 🙁
Lucky friend to have u beside here, such a beautiful and pretty attractive black forest cake, fantastic.
The cake looks wonderful Sara. Love that it is eggless too...
U made it perfect Sara. Kudos!
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delicious cake lovely decoration...
Looks gorgeous! Am bookmarking this one to try. This is Lil Angels fav cake so got to try it out for her sake 🙂
Wow that's one delicious looking cake!..and being eggless tops it of course!
i am die hard fan of black forest,even if it is eggless,lovely decoration ,perfectly made....tempting clicks
My trial at this cake has been a horrible failure, but looking at your cake I feel like making it again!
The cake looks absolutely great!
Lovely Cake.
Please pack some cute black-forest cake for me!! Looks awesome.. I'm a new blogger... Do visit my blog... http://kitchenserenity.blogspot.in/
Delicious cake,loved it a lot...
eggless version looks so delicious. Love to try it.
Wow looks so wonderfull...Love that it is eggless...
Cake looks just like the one in bakery's!
omg!!!That looks awesome and eggless too!!!Love the pic as well
My family's all time favorite cake..looks so tempting and love the eggless version..bookmarking...
would love to see a slice of the cake...
Wow ! looks super perfect....
What a lovely starting with black forest cake... look perfect and yumm
yummy and tempting cake
Such a neat cake. Love the icing. I wish I could do such neat stuff too 🙁
Gorgeous cake,beautifully made..
Love the cake simple and cute presentation. Need to have a slice dear.
look really tempting , i'm drooling
Wow! Rich and tempting. Lovely cake.
One of my favorite cakes. Looks amazing.
perfectly done cake....luv the clicks..
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factory made, no one wud say u made at home, looks nice
The cake looks stunning. Your friend must have been delighted to get this!
looks so professionally done!!! so delicious and so inviting!!
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Wow, that looks delectable.