Black jungle cake
Ingredients:
For cake:
• 8 eggs
• 200 gr of flour
• 300 gr of sugar
• 50 gr of bitter cocoa
For filling and decoration:
• Cherry (necessary amount)
• 500 ml of milk cream
• 425 gr of icing sugar
• 300 gr of semi bitter chocolate
• Cherry liquor or other liquor (optional)
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
Preparation:
1️⃣ Prepare the cake:
1. Mix the eggs with the sugar: beat until you get a letter, that is, a thick mixture that leaves a groove when you lift the rods.
2. Add the dry ingredients: sift the flour and cocoa and add it to the mixture of eggs and sugar. Delicately mix with enveloping movements so as not to lose air.
3. Preheat the oven: at 180 ° C (moderate). Grease and flour three medium cake molds.
4. Bake: divide the mixture into three equal parts and pour into the molds. Bake for 15 minutes or until inserting a stick is clean. Let cool.
2️⃣ Prepare the filling cream:
5. Beat the milk cream: Place the milk cream in a bowl, add the vanilla essence and the icing sugar. Beat until you get hard peaks.
3️⃣ Cake assembly:
6. Assemble the cake: place the first cake at the base. Bathe with cherry liquor (optional), then extend a layer of cream and place some cherries.
7. Repeat the layers: place the second cake and repeat the procedure (liquor, cream, cherries). Repeat once again with the third cake.
8. Cover and decorate: end with a layer of cream and decorate with cherries and pieces of grated or melted bitter chocolate.
4️⃣ Finish and serve:
9. Refrigerate: let the cake rest in the fridge for a couple of hours so that the flavors settle.
10. Serve: And voila! Your black jungle cake is ready
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