Black Forest Cake

This cake was my Mums request for mothers day, there was a minor disaster at first.
 I cut the cake on an angle.. so i couldn't do the three layers that i had originally planned to. It all worked out in the end..
The cake is a simple chocolate cake cut in two brushed with kirsch (cherry liquor). Cherry cream in the centre and dark chocolate ganache around the whole cake topped with grated chocolate, cream and cherries.
Have a good one,
Elena xo

Black Forest Cake:

Ingredients:
* 250g butter
*2 table spoons instant coffee powder
*1 1/2 caster sugar
*1 cup milk
*1/3 cup cocoa
*2 1/2 cups self raising flour
*3 eggs
*200g dark chocolate
*600ml thickened cream
*2 table spoons icing sugar
*1/4 cup kirsch (ps: you can find Kirsch at dan murphy's if coles liquor land doesn't have it)
*2x 425g jar of morello cherries in syrup (drained)
*grated dark chocolate

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees, grease and line a 25 cm round cake tin.
2.Place butter, sugar, milk and cocoa(sifted)  in a saucepan over medium heat, cook for about 10 minutes or until smooth. Allow to cool for 20 minutes.
3.whisk flour (sifted) and eggs into chocolate mixture, pour into prepared pan and bake for 50 minutes to an hour.. until skewer comes out clean ,allow to cool in pan.
4.place chocolate and 1/3 cup cream in a saucepan over low-medium heat until smooth. ( do not overheat) put in the fridge for 15 minutes until thickened.
5.use an electric mixer to beat the rest of the cream and icing sugar in a bowl until stiff peaks form. Reserve 1 1/2 cups cherries , halve the rest of the cherries and add to half the cream.
6.cut the cake with a knife through the middle ( make sure its straight!) place the base on a plate and brush with kirsch (top layer too)  Spread the cherry cream over the base then place the top of the cake on. Brush the top and sides with the rest of the kirsch.
7.spread the chocolate over the top and sides of the cake, press grated chocolate onto the sides of the cake. Top with cream and cherries and serve!