Black Forest Cake Recipe

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Black Forest Cake
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Ingredients:

  • 3/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 1-1/2 cups boiling water
  • 2 sticks plus 2 tbsp butter, softened
  • 1-3/4 cups, plus 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1-3/4 cups, plus 1 tbsp all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • frosting
  • 12 tbsp (1-1/2 sticks) butter, cut in 12 pieces
  • 4 cups confectioners sugar , sifted
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1-1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 can cherry pie filing

Directions:

  1. Cake:
  2. Preheat oven to 350.
  3. Grease three 8 or 9 inch round cake pans. Cover pan bottoms with parchment or wax paper, cut to size. Grease paper, then dust with flour, tapping out excess.
  4. Mix cocoa and instant coffee in small bowl. Add boiling water and mix until smooth. Cool to room temperature, then stir in vanilla.
  5. Beat butter with electric mixer, at medium-high speed until smooth and shiny, about 30 seconds. Gradually sprinkle in sugar; beat until mixture is fluffy and almost white, 3-5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating 1 full minute after each addition.
  6. Whisk flour, baking soda and salt in medium bowl. With mixer on lowest speed, add about 1/3 of the dry ingredients to batter, followed immediately by about 1/3 of the cocoa mixture; mix until ingredients are almost incorporated. Repeat process twice more. When batter appears blended, stop mixer and scrape bowl sides with rubber spatula. Return mixer to low speed, beat until batter looks satiny, 15-20 seconds.
  7. Divide batter evenly among pans. Spread batter to sides and smooth top. Bake until cakes feel firm in center when lightly pressed and toothpick comes out clean, or with just a crumb or two adhering, 25-30 minutes.
  8. Transfer pans to wire racks, cool for 10 minutes. Run knife around edge of each pan, invert cakes onto racks, and peel off paper. Re-invert cakes onto additional racks so tops are up. Cool completely.
  9. Frosting:
  10. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over low heat or melt it in a large glass bowl in the microwave oven on high power for 45 seconds.
  11. Place the melted butter in a large mixing bowl and add the cocoa powder. Whisk until smooth.
  12. Add the confectioners' sugar alternately with the sour cream, blending with an electric mixer on low speed for to 11/2 minutes, or until incorporated.
  13. Stop the machine and add the vanilla. Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat until light and fluffy, 1 minute more.
  14. Place one layer of the cake on a plate. Frost the top with about 1/4 cup of frosting, then put 1/3 of the can of pie filling (about 2/3 cup) on the frosting to within 1/2 inch of edge of cake.
  15. Top with another cake layer, frosting and pie filling.
  16. Top with last layer of cake, then frost the top and sides of the cake. Build up the frosting around the outer edge of the top layer and fill in the middle with the last of the cherry pie filling.
  17. Either add whipped cream in a ring around the top cherries, top each cut slice with it.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1874.44 Kcal (7848 kJ)
Calories from fat 1196.68 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 132.96g 205%
Cholesterol 400.51mg 134%
Sodium 527.77mg 22%
Potassium 419.03mg 9%
Total Carbs 168.54g 56%
Sugars 140.91g 564%
Dietary Fiber 2.31g 9%
Protein 9.16g 18%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 0%
Vitamin A 1.6mg 53%
Iron 0.9mg 5%
Calcium 127mg 13%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 464.32 Kcal (1944 kJ)
Calories from fat 296.43 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 32.94g 205%
Cholesterol 99.21mg 134%
Sodium 130.73mg 22%
Potassium 103.8mg 9%
Total Carbs 41.75g 56%
Sugars 34.9g 564%
Dietary Fiber 0.57g 9%
Protein 2.27g 18%
Vitamin A 0.4mg 53%
Iron 0.2mg 5%
Calcium 31.5mg 13%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 48.1
    Points
  • 53
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar,
  • High in Total Fat

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