Re: Here's another Black Forest Cake recipe for you...

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: : BLACK FOREST CAKE : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : 6 eggs (at room temperature) : : 1 c. sugar : : 1 tsp. vanilla : : 1/2 c. flour : : 1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa : : 2/3 c. margarine, melted : : Syrup: : : 1/3 c. sugar : : 3 Tbsp. Kirsch or Cointreau liquer : : Glazed cherries : : Filling: : : 3 c. heavy cream : : 1/2 c. confectioner's sugar : : 1 (8 oz.) milk chocolate bar : : Grease and flour 3 cake pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In bowl at high speed, beat eggs until light and fluffy. Beat in 1 cup sugar; continue beating until very thick, about 10 : : minutes. Add vanilla. Sift flour with cocoa. Fold into egg mixture in fourths, using a wire whisk. Fold in oleo until combined. Turn into pans. Bake for 15 minutes or until surface springs back when pressed. Cool in pans for 5 minutes. : : Meanwhile, make syrup. In saucepan, combine sugar with 1/2 cup water; stir over medium heat to dissolve sugar. Bring to boiling; boil, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Set aside to cool; add Kirsch. Make glazed cherries. : : Make filling: Beat cream with XXX sugar until stiff. : : Invert 1 cake layer onto cake plate. Spread glazed cherries over it. Spread with 1 cup whipped cream. Put 2nd layer on : : spread with cream. Place 3rd layer on, spread top and side with cream, making 12 cream rosettes around edge (use pastry tube). Refrigerate. Make chocolate curls with bar. Using vegetable parer, scrape across bar. Refrigerate. Put curls in center of cake, mounding, cover rest and sides with curls. : : Makes 12 servings. : : Glazed Cherries For Black Forest Cake: : : 1 can pitted Bing cherries, drained : : 2 Tbsp. Kirsch or Cointreau liquer : : 1 Tbsp. cornstarch : : 2/3 c. cherry juice : : Combine cherries and Kirsch; let stand for 1 hour. In saucepan, combine cornstarch and 1/3 cup cherry juice; stir to dissolve cornstarch. Stir in remaining juice; bring to boil. Reduce heat; simmer for 5 minutes until thickened and : : translucent. Cool completely. Add cherries in Kirsch to cooled cornstarch mixture; mix well. Use to fill cake.