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)