Black Forest Cherry Cake
- 6 lg. eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 4 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate
- 1 cup flour, sifted
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup water
- 2 tbsp. Kirsch Liquer
- 1-1/2 cup Confectioners' sugar
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tbsp. Kirsch Liquer
- 2 cups canned sour cherries, drained
- 2 tbsp. Confectioners' sugar
- 1 cup heavy cream. whipped
- 1 (8 oz.) bar semisweet chocolate bar, melted
- Beat eggs, sugar, and vanilla together until thick and fluffy,about 10 minutes.
- Alternately fold chocolate and flour into the egg mixture, ending with flour.
- Pour the batter into 3 8-inch cake pans that have been well greased and floured.
- Bake in a preheated 350F.oven for 10 to 15 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the centercomes out clean.
- Cool cakes in pans for 5 minutes; turn out on racks to cool completely.
- Make syrup by mixing together sugar and water and boiling for 5 minutes.
- When syrup has cooled, stir in kirsch.
- Prick the cake layersand pour syrup over all 3 layers.
- To make the butter-cream filling, beat together sugar and butter until well blended.
- Add egg yolk; beat until light and fluffy, about 3 to 5 minutes.
- Fold in Kirsch.
- To assemble cake, place 1 layer on a cake plate.
- Spread with butter cream filling.
- Using 3/4 cup of the cherries, which have been patted dry, drop cherries evenly over cream.
- Place second layer on cake.
- Repeat.
- Place third layer on top.
- Fold 2 T confectioners' sugar into the whipped cream.
- Cover the sides and top of the cake with whippedcream.
- Decorate top of cake with remaining 1/2 cup cherries.
- To make chocolate curls from chocolate bar, shave (at room temperature) with a vegetable peeler.
- Refrigerate curls until ready to use.
- Press chocolate curls on sides of cake and sprinkle a few on the top.
- Chill until serving time.
eggs, sugar, vanilla extract, chocolate, flour, sugar, water, liquer, confectioners, unsalted butter, egg yolk, liquer, sour cherries, confectioners, heavy cream, chocolate
Taken from www.foodgeeks.com/recipes/1440 (may not work)