Black Forest Cake

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Black Forest Cake is a chocolate cake baked with kirsch. It is filled and covered with whipped cream and cherries. The top is decorated with cherries, whipped cream and chocolate curls.



Recipe:

• 1 Chocolate Cake Mix
  
• 1 Can of Cherry Pie Filling
  
• 2 Cups Heavy Whipping Cream
  
• 2 tbsp. Sugar
  
• 1 tsp. Vanilla
  
• 1 oz. Semi-Sweet Chocolate
  
• 1/4 cup Kirsch
  

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix chocolate cake mix to directions on back of box. Substitute 1/4 cup kirsch for 1/4 cup water that is called for on the cake mix box. Pour mixture in pan and bake as instructed on cake mix box.

While cake is baking, start on making the whipped cream. Place cold whipping cream in medium bowl. Whip until it starts to get foamy, about 3 minutes. Place in refrigerator, along with the mixer beaters for 15 minutes to chill.

After the whipping cream and beater are chilled, added sugar and vanilla to bowl. Whip until stiff peaks form. Placed the whipped cream back into the refrigerator until you are ready to use.

Grate the semi-sweet chocolate with a grater and set aside to use to decorate the cake later.

Once your chocolate cake is completely cool, you can torte the cake and fill with 1/4 of the whipped cream and half the can of cherry pie filling. Use the rest of the whipped cream to frost the top and sides of the cake. Place the remaining cherry pie filling on top of the cake. Sprinkle the grated chocolate on top of the cake.

Chill cake and serve. To store cake, make sure you keep it in the refrigerator.

Baking Tips:

• The above is a very simple Black Forest Cake. You can even leave the kirsch out if you don’t have any.
  
• You can make your own cherry filling and add kirsch to the cherries.
  
• Instead of vanilla, you can add kirsch to the whipping cream.
  
• Some recipes don’t add kirsch to the cake, but rely on kirsch in the cherry mixture and/or whipped cream.
  
• It doesn’t matter what type of chocolate cake you use. Any type of chocolate cake mix will do or you can make a chocolate cake from scratch.
  
• Now-a-days cake mixes are as good, if not better, than cakes made from scratch. Don’t feel like you must make a cake from scratch for it to be good.
  
• You can decorate the cake however you would like. If you have to level the cake, you can crumble the dome you cut off and use it to sprinkle onto the cake.