Baking the Black Forest cake recipe takes separate time for cooking a chocolate cake, making chocolate trees, frosting and assembling

Instruction for Chocolate cakeSift flour, baking powder and cocoa powder in a large and dry mixing bowl

Keep aside

In a separate mixing bowl, add sugar and butter and blend it with an electric blender till sugar dissolves

Add one egg at a time and keep blending till it's smooth and creamy

Now pour in some vanilla extract and give a quick mix again

Take the dry ingredient mix and start adding into the wet ingredient mix gradually

Add thick curd and fold in with a spatula to make a clean and smooth batter (Do not beat or whisk the batter)

Preheat the oven at 180 degree C for 10-15 minutes

Meanwhile grease and dust a baking pan and pour in the batter

Tap the cake pan on the counter to break and settle the air bubbles formed

Place the pan inside the oven and bake it for 35-40 minutes or till the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean

Transfer the cake on a wire rack and allow it to cool down completely

Once the cake is cool, carefully remove it from the pan and cling wrap it

Keep the wrapped cake in a dry and cool place till you prepare the frosting

Instruction for Chocolate TreesOn an A4 size sheet, draw the sketch of a tree measuring the correct height required according to the cake

Take a butter paper of a little larger/equal size and fix it over the sketch with a tape

Add melted chocolate in a piping bag and cut off the tip to make a small opening

Now make chocolate tree stencil over the sketch

Refrigerate the butter paper for almost an hour so that the tress become hard nicely

Instruction for FrostingIn a large mixing bowl, take heavy cream/ whipping cream and add icing sugar to it

With and electric blender whip the cream till soft peak appears

Refrigerate the whipped cream for 10 mins

Meanwhile take the chocolate cake prepared, remove the cling foil

Take a sharp serrated knife and slice the cake horizontally into two half

If you are skilled, you can make three slices too like I did

Keep all the three slices separate

In a bowl, add 4 tablespoons of icing sugar in half a cup of water and stir to make a sweet solution

Brush the cake slices top with this sweet solution generously

This will keep the cake moist from inside

Now carefully place the first slice on the turntable

Brush some cherry compote all over the top

With a clean spatula spread some whipped cream over the compote and spread chopped cherries over it

Place the second slice on top and repeat the same

Now place the final third slice on it and press gently with your palm

Now take whipped cream generously and apply all over the cake to cover it from top and sides

Do this till you get a smooth finish

Add some whipped cream in a disposable piping bag and make rosettes on the top border

Sprinkle chocolate shavings inside the rosette circle and place some cherries and white chocolate chips all over

Take out the chocolate tres from the fridge and place them on the sides by carefully pressing them with the cream to attach properly

Sprinkle some chocolate chips on the bottom to cover the gap between the tree roots

Refrigerate the cake for minimum 2 hours before serving

Serve this delicious Black Forest Cake at your next party!