How to Make Black Forest Cake

Made with rich chocolate and cherries, Black Forest cake is sure to become a family favorite. This recipe is easy to make. Just follow these steps.

Things You'll Need

• Chocolate cake mix, to make 2 layers
• Large can cherry pie filling
• 8 oz. whipped topping
• Juice from maraschino cherries
• 2 round layer cake pans
• Wooden toothpicks or wooden skewer

Instructions

1. Bake chocolate cake mix according to directions, or bake your own favorite recipe; do not use a mix with pudding in the middle, as it will be too moist. You will need 2 eight- or nine-inch layers for this recipe.

2. Remove cake from pans and place on platters, let cake cool for 5 minutes.

3. Poke holes in both layers of the cake, using the toothpicks or wooden skewer, approximately 1 inch apart.

4. Drizzle the juice from an 8-ounce jar of maraschino cherries into the holes. You can use a teaspoon, an eye dropper or a turkey baster to get the juice into the holes. Do not drizzle over the whole cake or it will be too moist to handle.

5. Place the chocolate cake layers in the refrigerator for 1 hour; this allows the cherry juice to seep through the cake to the bottom.

6. Remove the chocolate cake from the refrigerator. Open the canned cherry pie filling and spread three-fourths of the can on top of one cake layer, saving the last one-quarter for the topping. Place the second layer of cake on top of the one you've just spread the cherries on.

7. Ice the cake with whipped topping and place the last one-quarter of cherry pie filling on top for a beautiful presentation.

Tips & Warnings

• Flavor the whipped topping with extra maraschino cherry juice for an easy flavored icing.

• Use a bundt pan for this chocolate cake recipe, spreading the cherry pie filling after filling half the bundt pan.

• Mix the cherry pie filling in the cake batter and fill muffin tins for a special bite sized treat.

Resources

• Wonderful recipes of all kinds are at allrecipes.com.