Black Forest Cake Recipe (Sunday, 11/01/09)
Black Forest Cake with Golden Butter Icing
‘Windfall’s cheater cake that looks pastry-chef pretty and tastes like restaurant quality, fancy-schmancy! I threw this together for Carolyne's birthday when we we're at anchor in the Middle-of-Nowhere, Mexico and it was SO good!
Ingredients:
- 1 box chocolate cake mix (plus ingredients that the box cake calls for)
- 4-1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 cup real butter (NOT margarine), room temperature
- 1 can cherry pie filling
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 jar hot fudge (chocolate syrup will suffice)
I used a German Chocolate cake mix for this recipe. I made two 8" rounds according to the box directions the day before and once cooled, wrapped them in saran wrap to keep them moist.
The next morning (Carolyne’s birthday), I cut the puffy cake tops off (and ate them quickly before the kids could see) so that the cake rounds would stack flatly on top of one another. I prepared the Golden Butter Icing as follows:
Beat 1 cup room temperature butter still smooth. Add 2-1/4 cups SIFTED powdered sugar. Mix til smooth. Add 3 egg yolks. Beat. Add another 2-1/4 cups of SIFTED powdered sugar.
Open a can of cherry pie filling and pour into bowl. Mix in 1 teaspoon almond extract, blending thoroughly. Careful not to cut tongue when licking empty cherry can.
On bottom cake round, frost the inside edge of the cake on top all the way around, about 2" wide. Then frost the middle (this helps the two cakes stick together). Pour some of the cherry topping (about 1 cup) between the iced edge and the iced middle. Stick the other cake on top. Ice the rest of the cake with the remaining frosting. Lick frosting utensil and bowl before the kids catch on. Chill.
When ready to serve, add a little water to ½ cup hot fudge to help thin a bit. Heat slowly until blended and “pourable”. If using chocolate syrup instead of hot fudge, do not add water and do not heat. Take spoon and make large drips with chocolate from center of cake down sides. Place 3/4 - 1 cup of remaining cherry filling on top. If there is any fudge or cherry filling left and you haven’t eaten it when the kids weren’t looking, you can indulge each slice of cake by serving the remainders atop!
