Chocolate Surprise Cake

Much to my mother's surprise , I can cook. As a matter of fact, I'm a damn good cook. My friends love me to cook for them and I think my 3 most requested dishes are my friend chicken, blue cheese stuffed pork chops and mexican macaroni and cheese. Are all basically my own versions of each dish, except that mexmac is my invention. I also happen to kick some ass in the baking department. None of this should surprise my mother, since my father was a baker and he owned restaurants my whole life. You'd have hoped some it rubbed off on me. The irony of the fact that I make great cakes and cookies is that I don't usually eat pastries and the burden of consuming my creations usually falls on my roommate, bf and co-workers. I also love to watch the pastry, dessert and chocolate sculpting competions on the food network. It's amazing what they can do with food. This past weekend after watching a marathon of cake decorating competitions, I had this wild idea for a cake. I did a test run of the cake on Monday and got the thumbs way up from my roommate and my co-workers. Then I perfected the idea and made it last night. I took it to Queen Cathy's house where we enjoyed it after her awesome honey mustard chicken. Both Damian and Michele requested I make this for their birthdays this year. I thought I'd share it with all of you. And there's a pic of it at the bottom. Cathy is trying to find a contest for me to enter the recipe in. I hope you enjoy it. It's really easy to make and doesn't take much time at all.

Chocolate Surprise Cake

Invented by Wil Whalen

Indredients:

One devil's food box cake
One can classic chocolate frosting
One no bake Jello Cheesecake box set (do not get the one with the cherry topping)
One can of Cherry Pie Filling.

Bake the box cake in two 8 inch cake pans. After they're cooked, let them FULLY cool before proceeding to the next phase.

Once cooled, take one cake out of the pan and shave off the top to make it level. Then about an 1/2 inch from the edge cut a circle. Only let the knife go about half way into cake. After you carve the circle, removed the cake with in the circle. You should be left with a hollowed out cake with 1/2 inch sides and about 1/2 inch on the bottom. Set that cake aside.

Take the second out of the cake. You don't need to shave the top off this one. You will de-cake this one as well, but not take as much cake out. I suggest starting an inch from the sides of the cake and cutting diagonally so you end up with a cone like shape. Set this cake aside.

Open your can of cherry pie filling and have it next to the cakes.

Prepare your no bake cheese cake. Immediately after you're done pour the mixture into the first cake. Quickly add a layer of cherry pie filling to the top and then set the second cake on the first. Quickly pour the remainder of the cheese cake into the second cake. Top with a generous amount of the cherry pie filling. The cherry pie filling should form a circle on the top of the cake that goes out to about an inch from the sides.

Then frost the sides of the cake. Be very generous with the frosting. On the top, frost the bare edges around the cherry pie filling. Chill for about an hour before serving to allow the cheese cake to set.