The Humpherys Family

Black Forest Cheesecake

Source  Barbara Bakes
Recipe Added:  1/20/2014
Chocolate Cake
1 3/4 cups + 2 Tbsp sugar
1-3/4 cups flour
3/4 cup Hershey’s cocoa
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1 1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 large eggs
1 cup + 2 Tbsp milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup boiling water
 Cheesecake
2 8-oz pkgs cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup white sugar, 1/4 tsp of salt
2 large eggs, room temperature
1/3 cup sour cream, 1 tsp vanilla
1 cup cherry pie filling

Frosting
2 8-oz pkgs cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1 Tbsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup cherry pie filling
Cheesecake Preheat oven to 325F, set pot on stove with water to boil. Spray 9-inch springform pan and line bottom with parchment paper. Set aside. In mixer, beat cream cheese, sugar, and salt until combined. Add eggs one at a time, beating at low until smooth. Beat in vanilla and sour cream. Pour batter into prepared pan. Put dollops of cherry pie filling across top of cheesecake batter. Use a butter knife to hide cherries and swirl pie filling in to batter.

Set a metal broiler tray on bottom oven rack. Pour boiling water into broiler tray. Place springform pan in oven on rack above boiler tray. Bake 45 - 55 minutes. It should be set to touch and not jiggly. Remove cake and cool on wire rack 10-15 minutes; run knife around edge to help prevent cracking. Cool at least an hour, then place pan into freezer and freeze completely several hours, or overnight.

Chocolate Cake Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans. Set aside. Stir sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; With a mixer, beat on medium about 2 minutes. Carefully, stir in 1 cup boiling water. Pour batter into prepared cake pans. Bake 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.

Frosting In a large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla with an electric mixer until blended. Add powder sugar and beat until smooth.

Assemble Cake Place one cake layer in center of a plate or platter. Remove cheesecake from pan, layer cheesecake layer on top of bottom cake layer. (Let springform pan warm up before opening.) If cheesecake layer is not the same size as cake layer, trim before adding it. Peel off parchment. Place 2nd cake layer on top of cheesecake.

Frost Cake Apply a thin layer of frosting to top and sides of cake to create a crumb coat. Put cake in refrigerator for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, apply a second layer of frosting to sides. Pipe a decorate edge on top of cake, if desired. Add remaining cherry pie filling to top of cake and spread to decorated edge. Sprinkle grated chocolate on decorated edge and sides of cake. Keep cake refrigerated until ready to serve.
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