Black Forest cake

Ingredients

6 eggs

1 cup powdered sugar

1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup cocoa,

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 cup butter

1 tsp Vanilla essence

2 tbsp rum

1 1/2 cups sweetened whipped cream

1/2 cup sugar

pitted cherries to decorate

Method

Beat eggs with powered sugar till light fluffy. Sift flour with cocoa, baking powder and salt. Melt butter and cool a little. Fold the flour and butter into the eggs.  Add 1 tsp Vanilla essence. Pour the batter into 9" greased and floured cake tin. Bake at 180 C for about 15-20 minutes. Keep aside the cake to cool.

Syrup 

Boil sugar and tbsp of water for 1 minute and then cool. Add rum. Pour gently the syrup over the cakes. Sandwich the cakes with sweetened whipped cream. Reserve a little whipped cream to spread on the cake. Decorate with cherries, you can also scrape Cadbury chocolate on the cake.