Ooo gooey- eggless black forest cake

Sweetend Condensed Milk- 400 grams(1 can)
Butter – 1/2 Cup
Maida/Flour – 2 Cups
Cocoa powder – 4 tbsp
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Baking soda – 1 tsp
Pure Vanilla Essence- 1 tsp
Aerated cola – 200ml(I used Coke)

Method
1.Grease and line an 9’ round baking pan.
2. Preheat oven to 350 Degrees.
3.Melt butter-Microwave for 1 minute on high.Let it cool.
4.Add milkmaid and beat well.
5.Sift together Maida,Cocoa Powder,Baking Powder and Baking soda in a separate bowl.
6.Add Milkmaid-Butter mixture mix to the Maida mixture alternating with cola till Butter-Milkmaid mixture and Cola are finished.
7. Stir in the vanilla essence.
8. Pour into the greased baking tin and bake for 30-40 minutes or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
9. Let the Cake cool in the pan for 10-15 minutes and then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

Ingredients –For the Sugar syrup
Sugar – ½ cup
Water – ½ cup
In a thick bottom pan,mix the sugar and water and boil till the sugar melts.Keep aside to cool. finished.

Ingredients for Frosting
3/4 cup milk
1 (3 1/2 ounce) package instant pudding mix, Vanilla flavor
1/4 cup Sugar
8 ounces Cool Whip (Thaw per instructions on the packaging)

Method:
1. In a bowl, add milk, sugar and vanilla pudding and mix using wire whisker for 1 minute.
2. Fold in the Thawed Cool Whip. Mix well for another 2 minutes.

Ingredients for filling and Garnishing
Few cherries for garnishing on top. I used bottled Cherries that comes in syrup.
4-5 Tbsp of Cherry Syrup in the filling.
A bar of milk chocolate – Make chocolate shavings out of the bar and keep refrigerated till use. (I used Hershey's milk chocolate)