Easiest Black Forest Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 (18 ounce) box devil's food cake mix, baked as directed in 9 x 13 inch pan and left in pan
• 3 eggs (or as called for by your cake mix)
• 1/3 cup oil (or as called for by your cake mix)
• 1 1/3 cups water (or as called for by your cake mix)
• 1 (8 ounce) container cool whip, thawed
• 1 tablespoon almond extract
• 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
• 1 (5 1/8 ounce) box instant vanilla pudding, prepared as directed (use gelatin-free version to make vegetarian)
• 1 (21 ounce) can cherry pie filling
• chocolate sprinkles
• maraschino cherry

Recipe

• 1 mix cherry pie filling and almond extract.
• 2 while cake is still warm, poke top all over with fork and spread the cherry filling mixture all over the top.
• 3 when you prepare vanilla pudding, make it as directed on box, but add the vanilla extract to it with the milk.
• 4 fold cool whip into pudding.
• 5 spread pudding mixture over cake, covering the cherry pie filling.
• 6 decorate with chocolate sprinkles and cherries.
• 7 chill until serving time.