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Amaretto Black Forest Cake

Source: Recipegoldmine.com

List of Ingredients

1 box devil's food cake mix or
homemade chocolate cake
1 can Wilderness dark cherry pie filling
1/2 C. Amaretto
3 C. whipping cream
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 envelope Knox gelatine
1/3 C. cold water
6 T. confectioners' sugar
1/4 tsp. almond extract




Recipe

Bake cake as directed in round layer cake pans. Let set to cool and firm up. With a skewer or ice pick make holes in cakes and pour over Amaretto. Let stand overnight.

Prepare cream mixture by combining cream, sugar and vanilla and almond extracts in a large bowl; beat until softly whipped.

Meanwhile in saucepan, mix gelatine with cold water and stir over low heat until lukewarm and dissolved. Cool slightly.

Beat gelatine mixture into cream and whip until thick. Place one cake layer on a serving plate, then put half of cherry filling on top. Cover with other layer and put cherry filling in center of layer. Frost top and sides with cream mixture, spreading cream around top edge.