Instructions: Cream butter, add sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Add liquid and dry ingredients alternately, beginning and ending with dry. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30min.

or until done.

Butter Cream Filling:
Cream butter until fluffy. Beat in sugar, salt and egg yolk until thick and creamy. Add milk if needed for consistency. Add melted chocolate.

Makes
about 2 1/2 cups

Putting It All Together:
Slice off crown of cakes to level layers and sprinkle each layer with 1 tsp. kirsch. Spread top of bottom layer with chocolate butter cream. Place 1 1/2 cups cherries on butter cream and press lightly into cream. Top with second layer. Whip cream, sweetening it with sugar and adding remaining kirsch to taste. Spread whipped cream over top and around sides of cake. Decorate with chocolate curls or grated chocolate and remaining cherries. Chill for several hours before serving.

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