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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Deutschland >> German

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. | 2. Line the bottoms of two 8 inch round pans with parchment paper circles or grease the pans. | 3. Sift together flour, cocoa, baking soda and 1 teaspoon salt. Set aside. | 4. Cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. | 5. Add eggs and beat well. | 6. Add vanilla. | 7. Add flour mixture, alternating with milk, beat until combined. | 8. Pour into 2 round 8 inch pans. | 9. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. | 10. Cool completely. | 11. Remove paper from under the cakes. | 12. Sprinkle each layer with 1/2 cup of the Kirschwasser. | 13. In a separate bowl, whip the cream to stiff peaks. | 14. Beat in vanilla and Kirschwasser. | 15. Add sugar powder, and a pinch of salt. | 16. Beat again. | 17. Spread first layer of cake with 1/2 of the filling. | 18. Top with 24 of the cherries, split in half. | 19. Put second layer on top of the first. | 20. Frost top and sides of cake. | 21. Add remaining cherries, split, to the top of the cake. | 22. Sprinkle with chocolate curls made by using a potato peeler on the cocoa. I used the 70% Cocoa chocolate bars, adjust yours by percentage if this is too dark for you,. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
flour	1 2/3	2/3		963.8	211.00900000000001	15.6683	3.7393
cocoa powder	2/3	cup	unsweetened	130.72	33.196	11.2373	7.8547
baking soda	1 1/2	1/2		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
shortening	1/2	cup		906.1	0.0	0.0	102.5
sugar	1 1/2	cups		1208.97	302.394	0.0	0.0
egg	2			143.0	0.72	12.56	9.51
vanilla	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
buttermilk	1 1/2	cups		-	-	-	-
kirschwasser cherry schnapps	1	cup		-	-	-	-
heavy whipping cream	1 1/2	cups		612.0	4.9319999999999995	5.112	64.944
vanilla	3/4	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
kirschwasser cherry schnapps	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
sugar	1 1/2	cups	powdered	700.2	179.58599999999998	0.0	0.0
salt	1	pinch		-	-	-	-
cherry	36		pitted	-	-	-	-
dark chocolate	2	squares		-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.