Amaretto Black Forest Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 (18.25 ounce) box devil's food cake mix* or homemade chocolate cake
- 1 can Wilderness dark cherry pie filling
- 1/2 cup Amaretto
- 3 cups whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 envelope Knox gelatine
- 1/3 cup cold water
- 6 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
Amaretto Liqueur
- 1 3/4 cups vodka
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 teaspoons almond extract
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup water
Instructions
Cake
- If using homemade Amaretto Liqueur, make it one week before making the cake. Otherwise, use purchased Amaretto for this cake.
- Bake cake as directed in round layer cake pans.
- Let set to cool and firm up.
- With a skewer or ice pick make holes in cakes and pour over Amaretto. Let stand overnight.
- Prepare cream mixture by combining cream, sugar, vanilla and almond flavor in a large bowl; beat until softly whipped.
- Meanwhile in saucepan, mix gelatine with cold water and stir over low heat until lukewarm and dissolved. Cool slightly.
- Beat into cream and whip until thick.
- Place one cake layer on serving plate, put half of cherry filling on top.
- Cover with other layer and put cherry filling in center of layer.
- Frost top and sides with cream mixture, spreading cream around top edge.
Amaretto Liqueur
- Cook sugars and water for five minutes.
- Add all together and put into liquor bottle.
- Store in cool, dark place. Use in one week. Cheaper than purchasing it.
Notes
* 18.25 ounce boxes of cake mix have been replaced by 16.5 ounce and 15.25 ounce boxes. To compensate for the volume loss in a 16 ounce box, whisk 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour into the dry cake mix before proceeding with the recipe. To compensate for the volume loss in a 15.25 ounce box, add 1/2 cup + 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour and 1/4 teaspoon baking powder.
