eggless black forest cake recipe, how to make black forest cake

By foodiva

Ingredients

• 1 medium sized eggless chocolate cake or sponge chocolate cake OR check the below recipe
• 1 cup whole wheat flour (atta), levelled or 120 grams atta
• 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 pinch of salt
• ¾ cup sugar or 150 grams sugar
• 1 cup cold water, 250 ml
• ¼ cup oil or melted butter, 62.5 ml
• 62 .5 ml
• 1 tablespoon lime or lemon juice
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla powder or vanilla essence
• 200 ml chilled amul fresh cream or chilled heavy whipping cream
• 5 tablespoons icing sugar
• 3 tablespoons chopped red cherries
• 7 to 8 tablespoons grated chocolate or chocolate shavings, you can also add as required
• 2 to 3 teaspoons cherry syrup or 1 teaspoon sugar dissolved in 3 to 4 teaspoon water. you can use rum or wine instead of sugar syrup
• 8 to 10 whole cherries for decoration or as required
• some chocolate shavings for decoration, optional
• for eggless chocolate cake
• icing for black forest cake

Details

Adapted from vegrecipesofindia.com

Preparation

Step 1

324 comments/reviewsComment navigation← Older Comments dassana Jan 30, 2019 you can use fresh pitted red or black cherries or cherries which are preserved in sugar syrup. avoid using canned maraschino cherries as they taste full of preservatives. once i had got a can and i had to discard the entire can. the taste was horrible both of the cherries and syrup. even dried cherries can be added. for dried cherries soak in water overnight or in warm water for a few hours. Vinaya Jan 30, 2019 Thank you dassana Jan 30, 2019 welcome. Vinaya Oct 19, 2018 Tried this one today, came out amazing. Thank you for making cooking seem so simple ? dassana amit Oct 21, 2018 welcome vinaya and thanks for sharing this feedback. Pradipta Nov 07, 2017 Mam, please advice how to hide the cake crumbs while icing the cake. No one share this particular trick. I thought atleast u will share but u also avoided very carefully telling in pt no 7 that as it’s a home made cake it doesn’t need to be that perfect. Mam, i want my cake to look professional. Please, please help. dassana amit Nov 07, 2017 pradipta, its not i have avoided. in one recipe i have mentioned but not in this one. when i write a post then it a detailed process and at times i do forget to mention a few points here and there. a thin layer of crumb coat works well for cake crumbs. this crumb coat can be a thin layer of buttercream icing or a glaze icing. a glaze icing is a simple icing made of powdered sugar + water or milk. apply the icing in a thin layer and then refrigerate the cake for a couple of hours. then later you can do the cream icing. if you chill the cake overnight and the do the icing, then also the crumbs will be less. hope this helps. Pradipta Nov 10, 2017 A heartfelt thanks for you Mam. My Mom’s birthday is on 23rd Nov. I want to surprise her with a cake that looks professional but gradually she will come to know that I made it specially for her. Sorry, if I had hurt you. Actually I was anxiously reading the recipe and finally stumbled on that particular point I was searching for quite a long time. Mam can you tell in which particular recipe you had mentioned this, so that I can read it. Thanks once again. dassana amit Nov 10, 2017 welcome pradipta. you did not hurt me. i can understand. regarding the cake crumbs i remember writing it for a cake recipe. i went and checked all the recipes and its not there in the recipes which i have already posted, but in a recipe which is not yet published. its eggless chocolate truffle cake and this recipe has been lying in my drafts from a very long time. i had forgotten which recipe i had written about cake crumbs but i did remember writing it. for almost daily i write a recipe and sometimes i forget the important points etc, though i do make a note of it physically or mentally. Pradipta Dec 23, 2017 Mam please do publish it. the pictorial elaboration helps to understand it properly. Wish you Merry Christmas and very Happy New Year. dassana amit Dec 24, 2017 pradipta, i will add the recipe. i did not publish it as there were many crumbs and so i had to do the crumb coat on the cake.in fact i want to share many cake recipes. i will be adding pineapple upside down cake recipe in a couple of days. happy new year to you too. Poornima Sep 25, 2017 HeLlo…i m going to try this recipe today..just one confusion about wheat flour.i hv never used wheat flour for cake..pls give me suggestion…pls… dassana amit Sep 25, 2017 wheat flour is atta that we use for making chapatis. if you do not want to use atta, then use maida (all purpose flour). Ruchi Aug 24, 2017 Hi dassana, I read in the comments section that whipping cream can be made at home using malai. Can I mix malai with some amount of milk to create like 60-70% cream? I was thinking that use of pure malai will make the cake very heavy. dassana amit Aug 25, 2017 ruchi, yes you can easily make whipping cream at home with malai. you can do this way. the cream will be slightly thinner. thats it. but for the cake, this cream+milk cannot be used. reason being it won’t whip. the milk in it won’t allow the cream to have stiff peaks. so for the cake you will need to use the malai for cream without adding milk. for gravies, soups, baked dishes etc you can use the cream+milk. Ruchi Aug 26, 2017 Oh ok. Actually I thought of doing so because Amul cream can get whipped even though the label says that it is 25% cream. I thought rest 75% they add milk. Am I missing something here? I don’t know much about baking-icing fundamentals, I was just wondering if we can it make this way at home.On another note, there seems to be a funny thing going on with the ‘search this website’ option of your blog. For example, when I typed and searched Chocolate cake, then it directly opened the recipe of Chocolate cake in pressure cooker. I searched raita and it opened just the Dill leaves raita recipe. It’s not showing different results of recipes related to the keyword. It’s been happening since past couple of days I think. You might look into it since I use this feature a lot ? dassana amit Aug 26, 2017 ruchi the 25% cream means that there is 25% fat in the cream. milk is not added. so basically its a low fat cream. otherwise whipping creams have 50 to 60% fat.i will check the search option. thanks for letting me know. will look into it. Ruchi Aug 26, 2017 ok, thanks for clarifying. the search option is working now. thanks dassana amit Aug 27, 2017 welcome ruchi and thanks again for letting me know about the search option. Harshit Aug 14, 2017 Is there a substitute of cream Harshit dassana amit Aug 14, 2017 harshit, instead of cream, you can use unsalted white butter or cream cheese. but then the cake will be a chocolate cake with butter icing or cream cheese icing. Ruchika Aug 09, 2017 I am feeling very skeptical. Never done an eggless cake that does not either have milk or curd. But the amount of positivity in the comments makes me feel to close my eyes and follow. So here i go ? dassana amit Aug 10, 2017 Ruchika, give it a try. its tried and tested recipe.Comment navigation← Older CommentsComments are closed due to some technical issues. Hopefully we will try to open the comments as soon as possible