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Delish and Evil Theme: No bake Desserts BM#78 Week 3 Day 3    When I saw so many dark ruby red cherries at the market and in the supermarket, I was tempted to bake a black forest cake. Basically a Black Forest cake, is layers of chocolate cake, kirsch soaked cherries, grated chocolate and whipped cream. Kirsch(kirsch wasser) is a spirit made from tart cherries. I would have loved to bake this cake or gateau as its called. However, my family would have probably thrown me out with all the dessert I'm making for the past few days.    Remember I mentioned in the last dessert post that I was looking for brownies. Well, its for this dessert. Since I couldn't bake the cake(who will eat it??) and as the Blogging Marathon theme suggested No Baked Desserts, I decided to make the next best thing to Black Forest Cake and that is a Black Forest Trifle.     Usually trifles are set in a big bowl and then served by scooping out a portion. I decided to go the mini way ...

  no one will ever guess     I prefer making easy desserts and ones which are cold, mainly because of the hot weather in Mombasa. This dessert recipe was given to me by my sister in law Arti K and its been my all time favourite. I make it quite often when I have guests over and they all think that the brown layer is made of cake. But it isn't. Over the years I have made changes to the original recipe by adding more chocolate, less cream, a variety of fruits etc.  The original recipe required stale brown bread, but I use fresh as the stale brown bread makes the layers a bit too dry. It is a bit difficult making this trifle in India if you don't get fresh cream as the Amul cream does not become fluffy on whipping it. Try and get some fresh cream which sometimes is available in the bigger stores.  BROWN BREAD TRIFLE 8 servings 3 cups of brown bread crumbs ¼ cup sugar ½ cup drinking chocolate powder 1½ to 2 cups fresh cream 2 cups chopped fresh fruit  1 cu...