Black Forest Cake

Black Forest Cake recipe

Do you just love rich chocolate, tangy cherry and sumptuous whipped cream? This Black Forest Cake delivers all this and so much more! The Devil's Food Cake is decadently chocolatey and the cherries, whipped cream and cake deliver a taste that is so much more than the simple flavors suggest. And, it looks so great! It is a perfect dessert for that special occasion.

Cake steps:

1. preheat oven to 375°F.
2. cream sugar, butter and salt until smooth (a couple of minutes with mixer).
3. add flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and milk to the creamed sugar mixture and mix for 5 minutes.
4. blend in eggs, one at a time until batter is smooth.
5. grease two 9" pans and divide batter evenly.
6. bake for 25-40 minutes (seems to bake faster in higher, drier places).

Icing and decoration steps:

1. whip cream to firm peaks.
2. make simple syrup by dissolving sugar in water.
3. cut each cake in half, using a bread knife.
4. place one of the cut cake layers on the serving plate/platter and soak top surface of cake layer in simple syrup.
5. spread a thin layer of whipping cream and then pipe whipping cream around the edge to act as a rim to hold in the cherry pie filling.
6. spoon in the cherry pie filling.
7. repeat steps 4-6 for the next two layers and then top with the last layer.
8. ice the top of the cake and then the sides.
9. pipe rosettes on top of cake, then a rim around the bottom of the cake and further rosettes around the bottom of the cake (see video).
10. place decorative fruit on top of the rosettes. Optionally add chocolate sprinkles or shavings for decoration.