Easy Black Forest Cake
From hayleesgrandma 17 years ago
- 32 minutes to make
- Serves 10
Devil's food cake layers, made from a mix and embellished with chocolate and vanilla extracts and creamy milk chocolate, are sandwiched with the simplest and most luxurious stuffing of them all–ready-to-eat cheesecake filling and cherry pie filling. Read more The cake is capped off with ready-to-spread fudge frosting and gooey chocolate-covered cherry candies. This cake puts a traditional black forest cake to shame–and it's amazingly simple to make because of all the packaged products. See less
Ingredients
- unsweetened cocoa shopping list
- 1 (18.25-oz.) package devil's food cake mix shopping list
- 1 (3.4-oz.) package chocolate instant pudding mix shopping list
- 3 large eggs shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups milk shopping list
- 1 cup canola oil shopping list
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract shopping list
- 1 1/2 teaspoons chocolate extract shopping list
- 1 teaspoon almond extract shopping list
- 3 (1.55-oz.) milk chocolate bars, chopped shopping list
- 1 (24.3-oz.) container ready-to-eat cheesecake filling, divided shopping list
- 1 (21-oz.) can cherry pie filling, divided shopping list
- 2 (16-oz.) cans chocolate fudge frosting shopping list
- Garnish: chocolate covered cherries, halved (optional) shopping list
How to make it
- Preparation
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°. Grease 2 (9-inch) round cake pans, and dust with cocoa. Set aside.
- 2. Beat cake mix and next 7 ingredients at low speed with an electric mixer 1 minute; beat at medium speed 2 minutes. Fold in chopped chocolate. Pour batter into prepared pans.
- 3. Bake at 350° for 30 to 32 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks, and cool completely on wire rack. Wrap and chill cake layers at least 1 hour or up to 24 hours.
- 4. Using a serrated knife, slice cake layers in half horizontally to make 4 layers. Place 1 layer, cut side up, on cake plate. Spread one-third of cheesecake filling over cake; top with one-third of cherry pie filling. Repeat procedure twice with remaining cheesecake filling and cherry filling. Place final cake layer on top of cake; cut side down. Spread chocolate fudge frosting on top and sides of cake. Cover and chill in refrigerator until ready to serve. Garnish, if desired. Store in refrigerator.
The Rating
Reviewed by 11 people-
Chocolate and cherry! There should be a group just for these 2 flavors. I just posted my easy BF cake recipe recently but this one sure looks richer and tastier. Definitely will try. Thank you!
lanijoy
in Olympia loved it
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We love Black Forest Cake in our home.
This is a great recipe. Love the ingredients.
I will definitely bake this for the family!
Thanks for sharing!
Debbie~
Oh yeah...High 5!!! :)
pinkpasta
in Upstate loved it
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I made this cake and took it to a Ladies Tea at Church. Everyone Loved it and our pastor mentioned it today during the announcements. (He singled this one out and there were about 30 cakes there) He only got to eat the crumbs left on the plate. Thi...more
cookinggood
in Leesburg loved it
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