#BLACK FOREST PIE CRACKER#

It's based on the German dessert Schwarzwälder Kirschtortewhich literally means Black Forest Cherry Tart. A black forest cake (or black forest gâteau in British English) is a chocolate sponge cake with a rich cherry filling and whipped cream. Let's begin with what is a black forest cake. Did you make this recipe? Why is it called Black Forest Cake? We’ll be heading out to our favorite farm in a few weeks to pick more sour cherries…and I think another Black Forest Cherry Pie will definitely be in order for the afternoon of July 4th!Ĭheers, friends! Oh, and if you make these brownies at home, come back and share your thoughts.8.10. When I got back, I had another bite of cold Black Forest Brownie Pie…and it was delicious! But our neighbors had invited us over for pizza and beers, so I just tossed the pie in the fridge before I left. I took a tiny bite of one of these slices right after I took the pictures, and it was tasty. But it was a difficult challenge.įunny enough, I actually prefer this pie cold. Since we aren’t currently on vacation, I somehow managed to limit myself to one slice of this pie. The result was this Black Forest Brownie Pie.

#BLACK FOREST PIE CRACKER#

I took it one step further and added a chocolate graham cracker crust just because I love using graham cracker crusts for pies. There are no rules when you’re on vacation!) Not that the pie needed anything else, but my wife suggested adding some sour cherries. (I might have scarfed down two slices because we were on vacation. We went down to visit my aunt and uncle in Texas this past spring, and my aunt made the most amazing brownie pie ever. (We did get one rogue apple last fall…and that was pretty awesome.) I suspect the birds will eat all of the cherries before they ever ripen, but it’s still pretty cool to have a cherry tree in the backyard! Not this year, though! The trees are big enough now that we’re letting them grow fruit. I knew it was for a good reason, but plucking those little flowers each spring was just not fun.

Picking off all of the buds made me cry a little bit each year.

This makes the tree send its energy into growing taller and stronger rather than producing fruit. I’ve always wanted to grow my own fruit trees! For the last several years, we’ve been picking off all of the buds when they form in the spring. When we first moved into our house about 4 years ago, we planted several fruit trees in the backyard. In fact, I just used the final bag from last year’s cherry harvest for this Black Forest Brownie Pie. Then we have berries for the rest of the year. We’ll leave some out to eat, but then we freeze the rest in quart-sized bags. Either way, the blueberry bushes and cherry trees are loaded with fresh berries, and we seriously stock up. I’m not sure why we always go on July 4th other than the fact that it’s a vacation day and we’re both off of work. Truthfully, I do find them a bit of a pain to eat due to the pit…but I’ll gladly put up with that mild inconvenience since they taste so amazing.Įvery July 4th for the past few years, we drive down to a farm about 45 minutes south of here and pick our own cherries and blueberries. (I did eat my share of cherry flavored candy…but that’s not quite the same.) But now I love fresh sour cherries! Whenever cherries show up in the market each year, I always grab a ton of them. I don’t recall ever seeing sour cherries in our fridge when I was a kid, and they just weren’t really on my radar. This Black Forest Brownie Pie features a chocolate crust filled with a decadent chocolate and cherry brownie filling! And don’t forget to serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!īefore I met my wife, I’d never really eaten sour cherries.

Black forest pie