Black Forest Cake

This deliciously moist Black Forest Cake is a cut above the rest with homemade whipped cream, rich chocolate ganache, and sweet spiked cherries.
When was the last time you ate a black forest cake? This time it’s less like baking and more like playing a video game with a bread knife. Or eating a cookie without sugar in it, if we’re going totally organic.

It starts with a black baking pan. You make a black sesame crust by spreading melted semisoft cheese over black sesame seeds. You even use chocolate chips. Let them cool, then mix the remaining ingredients, and bake away. To get the sesame crust out, slide the top crust off onto a clean pizza peel and rip it away from the sides and bottom. It’s supposed to be dark. Like a black forest cake, black on black.

Yes, this cake can be done in a dark kitchen without a camera. Is a pan black enough to go completely black in the oven? We’re into it. Get out your white eye and your fire extinguisher, and let the black forest cake cook.