sinful chocolate-cherry cake
(1 rating)
If you like cherries, you will love this cake. Not over-powering, but very good flavor! Very moist. The frosting, is a little bit expensive, but, once you buy all your extracts, you will have them for other cakes, and desserts.
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(1 rating)
prep time
10 Min
cook time
35 Min
Ingredients For sinful chocolate-cherry cake
- FOR THE CAKE:
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10 ozmaraschino jar, cherries, drained ( save juice), chop cherries
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1 boxmoist devil's food cake mix
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1/2 cvegetable oil
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3eggs
- FOR THE ICING:
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1/2 ccrisco ( not liquid)
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1/2 cunsalted butter ( do not use margarine)
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1 Tbspmeringue powder
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1 tspvanilla extract
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1/2 tspbutter flavoring
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1/4 tspalmond extract
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1/4 tsporange extract
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1/4 tsplemon extract
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16 ozpowdered sugar
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2 Tbspwarm water
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1/8 tspsalt
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10 ozjar, maraschino cherries, drained, ( save juice ) chopped
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1 ccherry-cola beverage ( this goes in the cake, not the icing, couldn't get it to add under cake ingredients
How To Make sinful chocolate-cherry cake
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1Preheat oven to 350*. Spray bottom of 13x9x2 inch pan, with spray, then sprinkle sugar over that. ( This gives your a cake a small "sweetness" on bottom of cake.
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2In large bowl, beat cake mix, cola beverage, oil, eggs, and saved cherry juice, with electric mixer on low, for 30 seconds, then on medium for 2 minutes.
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3Stir in chopped cherries.
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4Bake 34 to 42 minutes, or until toothpick inserted, comes out clean. Cool completely, ( about an hour), then frost cake with icing below.
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5In a small cup, measure out water and salt. Set aside and let the salt dissolve.
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6With an electric mixer, cream crisco, and butter until well combined.
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7Add meringue powder and all the extracts and flavorings, mixing well.
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8On low speed, gradually add the powdered sugar until well combined. It will get clumpy after the it is all in there.
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9Mix in salt/water, enough cherry juice to desired consistency.
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10Stir in chopped cherries, if you end up adding too much liquid, and it's too thin, just add a little bit of powdered sugar @ a time, until you get to the right consistancy that you want. And if it's too thick, just add a little bit more of cherry juice, until it's just like you want it.
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11Frost cake.
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