Dessert
Black Forest Cake
| Level: Easy |
Total Time: 3 hours |
Yield: 1 cake |
This recipe is a wonderfully rich cross between a Black Forest Cake and a Sacher Torte. It is delicious and very easy to make with canned pie filling and a box cake mix, but dressed up to make a very special dessert!
Black Forest Cake
Print RecipeServings: 8 people
This recipe is super chocolaty with apricot jam and cherry pie filling, and they combine to make this cake very tasty and rich!
Equipment
- 9 x 13 pan or 2 round cake pans
Ingredients
- 1 Box Chocolate cake or devil food chocolate cake mix
- 1/4 cup Cherry Liqueur
- 1/2 cup White sugar
- 1/2 cup Water
- Whipped cream either fresh or Cool Whip
- 1 jar Apricot jam
- 1 Chocolate bar
- 1 Dark chocolate bar
- 1 can Cherry Pie Filling 21 ounces
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Spray the cake pans with nonstick cooking spray.
- Follow the box instructions to mix the cake and bake. When the cake is fully baked, a toothpick inserted should come out clean.
- Cool the cake completely, this could take up to 2 hours.
- Make the Cherry Liqueur syrup by mixing the cherry liqueur, sugar and water in a small bowl.
- If baked in a 9 x 13 pan, divide the cake into 2 halves.
- Slowly drizzle the cherry liqueur syrup over the cake sections. Warm the apricot jam to lukewarm in a small pan to make it spreadable consistency, then spread it over the bottom section of the cake. Then spread a thin layer of Cool Whip over the bottom section.
- Then add the second cake section on top of the cream on the bottom section.
- Carefully spread the cherries on top, and then a thin layer of Cool Whip. Using a cheese grater, grate shavings from the chocolate bars, and sprinkle on top of the Cool Whip. Chill.
- Eat and enjoy!
- Keep refrigerated since the whipping cream needs to be kept refrigerated.