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Black Forest: the easiest way to pretend a master baker!

Here comes the 'bad' news for bakers: once you start to make a cake for a friend, you then have the responsibility to bake everyone a cake for their birthdays! So that was what I did basically... Fortunately, until now, baking is still more of joy than pain XD
As I'm still a green hand in baking and haven't tried making a cream, decorated cake, I decided to go for a simple one- simple but should be good-looking~ The black forest is apparently the perfect recipe for me! A rough spreading of cream covered by shredded chocolate, it looks just like what we buy in 'real' bakeries!
The cake base is a chocolate sponge cake- it is firmer than a chiffon so that it can hold the cream and filling more easily. I cut the cake into two slices, brushed rum with cherry juice (Kirschwasser would be the best!) on each, and put lots of cream and black cherries in the middle (never too much!!!). The cherries give the cake an extra layer of flavor- yum!!!
Last but not least, the recipe is from http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4a5089ff0100ftlj.html



It was the last slice of cake (soon gone too). Pretty messy then, but I'll just put it here anyway. Enjoy~

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