Black Forest Cherry Cake

Total Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 6 large eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate (there should be 4 squares of chocolate and it should be melted.)
• 1 cup flour, sifted
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup water
• 2 tablespoons kirsch
• 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/3 cup butter, unsalted
• 1 large egg yolk
• 2 tablespoons kirsch liqueur
• 2 cups sour cherries, canned, drained
• 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup cream, heavy, whipped
• 8 ounces semisweet chocolate bars

Recipe

• 1 cake: beat eggs, sugar, and vanilla together until thick and fluffy, about 10 minutes.
• 2 alternately fold chocolate and flour into the egg mixture, ending with flour.
• 3 pour the batter into 3 8-inch cake pans that have been well greased and floured.
• 4 bake in a preheated 350 degree f. oven for 10 to 15 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
• 5 cool cakes in pans for 5 minutes; turn out on racks to cool completely.
• 6 syrup: make syrup by mixing together sugar and water and boiling for 5 minutes.
• 7 when syrup has cooled, stir in kirsch.
• 8 prick the cake layers and pour syrup over all 3 layers.
• 9 filling: to make the butter-cream filling, beat together sugar and butter until well blended.
• 10 add egg yolk; beat until light and fluffy, about 3 to 5 minutes.
• 11 fold in kirsch.
• 12 cake assembly: to assemble cake, place 1 layer on a cake plate.
• 13 spread with butter cream filling.
• 14 using 3/4 cup of the cherries, which have been patted dry, drop cherries evenly over cream.
• 15 place second layer on cake.
• 16 repeat.
• 17 place third layer on top.
• 18 fold 2 t confectioners' sugar into the whipped cream.
• 19 cover the sides and top of the cake with whipped cream.
• 20 decorate top of cake with remaining 1/2 cup cherries.
• 21 to make chocolate curls from chocolate bar, shave (at room temperature) with a vegetable peeler.
• 22 refrigerate curls until ready to use.
• 23 press chocolate curls on sides of cake and sprinkle a few on the top.
• 24 chill until serving time.