Recipe- Mouthwatering Black Forest Mug Cake

This black forest mug cake is an easy, mini black forest cake with all the cherry, chocolatey goodness of the traditional version. It’s also gluten-free, dairy-free and paleo-friendly.My chocolate mug cake recipe has been a runaway hit and if you’d like to keep things really simple, you could absolutely just stick to that for Valentine’s day. Or, you could add a couple of minutes (literally, like 10) and create this gorgeous black forest mug cake. It’s a black forest cake. From a mug. And really boozy. You’re welcome.

Ingredients

1 cup cherries, pitted and halved
2 tbsp kirsch
1 recipe chocolate mug cake
1 recipe coconut whipped cream

Garnish

4 whole cherries
2 tbsp chocolate shavings

Method

* Place the pitted and halved cherries in a small bowl with the kirsch. Stir and set aside.

* Make the chocolate mug cake recipe.

* While the mug cake cools, make the coconut whipped cream.

* Invert the cooled cake onto a plate. Use a knife to flatten the cake top and cut the cake in half.

* To assemble the cake, drizzle a little bit of the kirsch from the soaked cherries onto the bottom cake layer. Top with coconut whipped cream and several cherry halves.

* Add the top cake layer, drizzle more kirsch, dollop more coconut whipped cream and top with whole cherries and chocolate shavings.