Ingredients:
11. zcup margarine
111, cups sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
4 eggs
111, cups unsifted flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
3J.
a tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1111cups Hershey chocolate syrup (1 lb. can)
1/2, cup water
Black Forest Filling (recipe
follows)
1 can cherry pie filling
Black Forest
Filling:
1 (8-oz.) package cream
cheese, softened
1 (12. oz.) carton frozen “‘hipped topping, partially thawed
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. almond flavoring
Instructions:
Cream margarine, sugar and vanilla in large mixing bowl. Add eggs (one at a time), beating after each addition. Combine flour, cocoa, soda and salt and add alternately with chocolate syrup and water to creamed mixture. Pour batter into 3 greased 9” cake pans. Bake at 350° 18-20 minutes or until tests done. Cool IO minutes and remove from pan. s. Cool completely. Prepare Black Forest Filling. To ice cake, place I cake layer on plate. Top with 1/3 Black Forest Filling, then 1/3 cherry piefiHing. Top with second cake layer, repeat; third layer, repeat, ending with cherries on top of cake. Refrigerate at least 3 hours before serving. Beat cream cheese until smooth, then beat in whipped topping, vanilla and almond flavoring.
Notes:
I made this for a church gathering once and it was so well received it became a regular on my menu.
Servings Yield:
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