Black Forest Dessert

Ingredients:

• Chocolate 150 gm
• Butter 150 gm
• Coffee powder 1 tbsp
• Sugar syrup or Cherry syrup 4-5 tbsp
• Eggs separated 4-5 tbsp
• Ground almonds 4-5 oz
• Caster sugar 4 oz

For Topping:

• Cherry syrup 2 tbsp
• Cherry jam 5 tbsp
• Cream 250 ml
• Cream cheese or Hung curd 5 oz
• Toasted flaked almonds 2 oz
• Black cherries pitted 1 can
• Chocolate grated to decorate
  

Method:

1. Melt chocolate with butter and coffee.
2. Beat egg whites very stiff.
3. Lightly fold in sugar and set aside.
4. Beat yolks in other bowl, add ground almonds, add sugar syrup or cherry syrup and fold in chocolate mixture very lightly with spoon.
5. Pour batter in greased and lined 9 inch spring-form tin and bake at 170 degrees C for 30-40 minutes or till done.
6. Cool on wire rack and remove from tin once cold.
7. Soak cake with cherry syrup, spread cherry jam on top, whip cream and cream cheese or hung curd and put layer of that on top.
8. Decorated with cherries, almonds and grated chocolate, chill and serve.