Skip to main content

Tasty Tuesdays {Black Forest Cake}

And it's Tasty Tuesday again!!  Yea!!

We celebrated my awesome hubby's birthday yesterday.  We were snowed/iced in (still are!), but we had CAKE!  That's all that matters, right? :)

Black Forest Cake is his fave and this is a recipe that I've made often for his birthdays in the past.  It had been a while though and I decided we needed to have it again this year.

It's SO good!!  Traditional Black Forest Cake is actually a little heavy for me, but this one is light and delicious!



Black Forest Cake
(cake)
6 eggs
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
(I like the Hershey's Special Dark)
1/2 cup butter, melted
(filling & topping)
2-1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
2 tbsp. powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 can cherry pie filling
grated chocolate
chocolate curls
*****
Preheat the oven to 350F.  Grease and flour three 8" round cake pans.  
Whisk the eggs with the sugar and vanilla in a bowl until they are pale 
and very thick.  Combine the flour and cocoa powder and fold into the 
egg mixture evenly.  Stir in the melted butter.  

Divide the mixture evenly between the pans (or if you only had one 
pan like I did last night, bake it one layer at a time).  Bake for about 
15 minutes, until the cake is risen and springy to the touch.  
Let cool in the pan for a couple of minutes, then turn out onto a 
cooling rack to cool completely.  

While the cakes are cooling whip the cream with a mixer 
until it starts to thicken, then beat in the powdered sugar and vanilla.  
Continue beating until soft but fairly stiff peaks form.  

Sprinkle a little powdered sugar onto your cake plate then place 
one of the cake layers onto it.  Spread the cake layer with a thick 
layer of the whipped cream.  Next spoon 1/3 of the cherries onto the 
whipped cream (I don't use the whole filling, I just spoon out the 
cherries individually).  Repeat with the next layer of cake.  
After placing the final layer of cake on the top frost the entire cake 
with the remaining whipped cream.  Place the final 1/3 of the cherries 
on the top, cover the sides with the grated chocolate, and add the 
chocolate curls to the top.  Keep cake chilled.  Serves 8-10.  






Comments

Betsy Brock said…
just give me a fork and I'll polish that cake off in a second. ha.
Betsy~
I'll eat a piece for you! ;)

Popular posts from this blog

The Making of an Egyptian Death Mask

We are learning all about the ancient world this year with Story of the World I and loving it! We've been learning a lot about Egypt, of course, which is completely fascinating. Most recently we have studied the New Kingdom of Egypt, which includes the story of King Tut. So we decided making an Egyptian death mask in the style of King Tut's would be a fun project. First since it was too cold at the time to paper mache in the garage (it probably would have frozen instead of dried-ha) and it was too messy to do it in the house, we decided to pick up a couple of cheap craft masks at Hobby Lobby. Next we cut out cardboard shapes to complete the shape of the death mask, attaching them with hot glue. Vince even put a little detail on the *beard* with the hot glue per The Princess' request. Then the kiddos started to paint them with this metallic gold tempera paint. It worked okay for the cardboard, but would not coat the plastic of the mask. We thought maybe a second coat

Door Hanger Chore Charts

My kids have had a chore chart for a while.  It's one of those magnetic boards and they share it.  However, it's not by their rooms and often they (and I) forget to update it.  Plus it's a little bulky.   When I saw the concept of a door hanger chore chart on Pinterest, I loved it!  It was compact, right there were the kiddos could see it coming out and going into their rooms, and it costs almost nothing to make.   I headed over to one of my favorite stores: Hobby Lobby, of course.  They  have these little wooden door hangers for .79.  I also grabbed a couple of packets of decorative buttons for $1.99 each.  I already had the clothes pins and the paint so those cost me nothing.   I began by painting the door hangers (I used tempera paints because that's what I had).  Then I grabbed a fine point Sharpie and the clothes pins and started writing chores on them, making sure to write them correctly so they will clip on the right direction.   The left

1st Day Back to {home}School, Among Other Things

We did it! We finally got unpacked enough and got our new learning room organized enough to start back to school! Frankly, I was starting to get worried...ha Today went very well though. So far I am extremely pleased with our new curriculum choices for math and language arts. Now, if I could just actually get some lesson planning done... And get the finishing touches done in the learning room, so I can blog it! In other news, it has been a bit of a traumatic week...pet-wise. Last weekend a sweet friend (who had asked my permission beforehand) brought the kiddos their very own little fish tank with two goldfish. Well, on Sunday we noticed that The Princess' fish was pretty lethargic...dead, actually. She was sad, but she handled it fairly well. And we went to the store that evening and let her pick out a new goldfish. Well, today during our school time~the fish tank is in our learning room~we noticed Mr. B's fish was acting funny. And then he was dead. It was a