Black Forest "Cherry" Cake
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List of Ingredients
Black Forest "Cherry" Cake
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 oz. semisweet chocolate
1 stick butter
3/4 granulated sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon almond extract
Filling and Topping:
2 cups whipping cream
2/3 cup confectioners' sugar
1/3 cup kirsch
16-oz. can pitted red tart cherries drained (reserve liquid)
12 maraschino cherries with stems Advertisement:
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Cake: Need two 9-inch round cake pans. In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. In double boiler or microwave, melt chocolate over low heat. Cool.
In another mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffly. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Add melted chocolate and gradually add the flour mixture.
Add almond extract. Pour batter into greased and floured cake pans. Bake in preheated 350 degree F. oven for 30 -35 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool in pan for 5-minutes, then on a wire rack. Cut each layer horizontally, to make four layers.
Filling and Topping:
Need a pastry bag with a star tube. In mixing bowl, beat cream until stiff. Gadually add confectioners' sugar. Sprinkle 1/3 kirsch on a layer of the cake.
Cover with a whipped cream and add 1/3 of the drained cherries. Place a second layer on top and repeat. Then a third layer. Top the cake with the fourth layer.
Spread 2/3 cup of the remaining whipped cream in a pastry bag and pipe rosettes of whipped cream around the top edge. Top rosettes with a stemmed cherries and garnish top center and sides with chocolate curls (made by shaving a chocolate bar with a vegetable peeler.)
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