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sinful chocolate-cherry cake

(1 rating)
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Recipe by
Jo Ann Gullett
@upsjoanne
Atkins, AR

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:
  • 10 oz
    maraschino jar, cherries, drained ( save juice), chop cherries
  • 1 box
    moist devil's food cake mix
  • 1/2 c
    vegetable oil
  • 3
    eggs
  • FOR THE ICING:
  • 1/2 c
    crisco ( not liquid)
  • 1/2 c
    unsalted butter ( do not use margarine)
  • 1 Tbsp
    meringue powder
  • 1 tsp
    vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp
    butter flavoring
  • 1/4 tsp
    almond extract
  • 1/4 tsp
    orange extract
  • 1/4 tsp
    lemon extract
  • 16 oz
    powdered sugar
  • 2 Tbsp
    warm water
  • 1/8 tsp
    salt
  • 10 oz
    jar, maraschino cherries, drained, ( save juice ) chopped
  • 1 c
    cherry-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

  • 1
    Preheat 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.
  • 2
    In 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.
  • 3
    Stir in chopped cherries.
  • 4
    Bake 34 to 42 minutes, or until toothpick inserted, comes out clean. Cool completely, ( about an hour), then frost cake with icing below.
  • 5
    In a small cup, measure out water and salt. Set aside and let the salt dissolve.
  • 6
    With an electric mixer, cream crisco, and butter until well combined.
  • 7
    Add meringue powder and all the extracts and flavorings, mixing well.
  • 8
    On low speed, gradually add the powdered sugar until well combined. It will get clumpy after the it is all in there.
  • 9
    Mix in salt/water, enough cherry juice to desired consistency.
  • 10
    Stir 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.
  • 11
    Frost cake.
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