Menu Description: "Layers of rich chocolate cake and sweet buttercream icing."

To simplify this clone recipe, we'll start with a box of cake mix, and tweak it a bit to add a little cherry flavor. The buttercream frosting spread between the three layers of the "lasagna" is a breeze to make from scratch. The real secret to this Top Secret Recipe is how we put it all together. You've got to make two slices through the edge of the baked cake to create the three thin layers, so grab a long serrated knife. Lay down some wax paper under the cake to help you turn the cake while you slice. Slide the whole thing over near the edge of the counter so that you can keep the knife parallel to the countertop, and you should have no trouble at all. Another technique is to drag a long piece of dental floss through the cake twice. The floss will glide right through the cake with ease, giving you two clean slices. You can use your favorite chocolate cake mix for the recipe, but be sure not to use one with pudding in it or one that is "extra moist." (Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe is one such brand.) These mixes make slicing and layering difficult because the baked cake falls apart so easily.