Ooo gooey- eggless black forest cake

Ingredients

• 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)

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Black forest cake, step by step

Preparation

• Assembling the Cake
  Cut the cake into 2 layers horizontally[Means Half the cake horizontally).
  Keep one layer of the cake on the serving plate.
  Sprinkle 5-6 tablespoons of sugar syrup on it. And 4-5 tbsp of Cherry Syrup.
  Now spread 5-6 tablespoons of prepared cream frosting on it.
  The other layer we have kept aside, spread sugar syrup on the inside layer of it.
  Put that layer back on the first layer making it a full cake.
  Cover the cake completely with cream frosting on all sides and the top.
  Level the top and sides with a broad spatula dipped in chilled water.
  Decorate the top and sides with chocolate shavings and Halved cherries on top. You can decorate as you like.
  Keep chilled in the fridge till use.