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Chocolate Cherry Cake with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
"The cake is delicious and very moist. I keep mine in the fridge and tastes great cold. Chocolate & cherries go great together, so why not in a cake! Adding soft cream cheese to canned frosting makes a great difference & makes it not so 'sugary'. ENJOY"
photo by Amber C.
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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1 thirteen x nine inch cake
ingredients
- 1 box chocolate cake mix (pillsbury puddin' in the mix)
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup water
- 1⁄4 cup olive oil
- 1 can cherry pie filling
- 1 can chocolate frosting
- 1 (8 ounce) container soft cream cheese
- maraschino cherry (without stems)
directions
- mix cake as directed (decreasing the water& oil to above measure).
- stir in 1 can cherry pie filling.
- pour into greased& floured cake pan (batter will be a little thick).
- spread evenly.
- bake 350 deg (as directed) about 45-50min (til knife comes out clean when inserted into center).
- cool completely.
- in bowl, mix frosting& cream cheese til blended.
- spread onto cooled cake.
- top with maraschino cherries (as many as u like).
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Reviews
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OH so moist and ever so delicious! Made this for my Dh's birthday cake and everyone was asking for a second piece. It was so simple to make too, and very delicious! Thanks!! -
As somebody who normally makes everything from scratch, especially anthing with chocolate, I found this recipe incredibly easy and remarkably delicious. I used coffee instead of the water and added two teaspoons of Almond Extract. It was wonderful. -
I made this for my DH when he was away for business so when he came home to a cherry chocolate cake he was ecstatic to say the least! He loves cherries and so do I, we both really enjoyed this. I only mixed 4-6 oz of the cream cheese to the frosting and mixed the rest with powdered sugar to decorate the cake. -
Very nice cake, I didn't do frosting though. As I didn't have frosting on hand. I used vanilla pudding and cool whip for a quick frosting and added another can of pie filling to the top of the cake, kinda like a black forest cake. I did make the cake as directed and it turned out great. I took it to a church function last night and it was the only cake that was completely gone by the end of the night. Thank you for a nice recipe that I will be making again. -
This was a very nice moist cake, however, I was expecting a more powerful cherry flavor and for me it wasn't there. But it still was a good cake and we did enjoy it. Thanks for posting.
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As somebody who normally makes everything from scratch, especially anthing with chocolate, I found this recipe incredibly easy and remarkably delicious. I used coffee instead of the water and added two teaspoons of Almond Extract. It was wonderful.
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i made this weeks ago and forgot to review it. i used vegetable oil instead of olive oil. threw in a teaspoon of almond extract and used your frosting idea. good cake. -
I made this for thanksgiving/DH's b-day and it was a big hit. Loved the cherries throughout the cake, delish. I used almond oil instead of olive to enhance that cherry flavour and used almost a full container of cream cheese but only about half the chocolate icing in the can and it turned out to be plenty and not too sweet. Quick, easy, yummy.
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I made this yesterday for a potluck supper at my church with excellent results. I felt that the olive oil would have too strong a flavour so I used canola oil instead. I used a Betty Crocker Devil's Food cake mix as that is the only kind we can get over here and a can of Waitrose Cherry fruit filling, which is the same as cherry pie filling. I have used a recipe similar to this in the past that used only 2 eggs, and no water, but thought I would give your version a try and was very pleased. Everyone scarfed it down in double time and brought home an empty dish. I also got very lazy with the frosting and used canned Betty Crocker Fudge frosting, but will try your version next time. I also didn't use cherries to garnish, but M&M's. Thanks for a great recipe!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
bayoucritter aka. a
tampa, fl
I have recently moved from Florida to
Georgia. I love it up here and the weather is nicer, well for now since winter hasn't hit.
Still haven't gone back on the road, I sure do miss truckin'.
I don't cook much anymore, since my injury. The best cook in the world takes care of that; my dearest mother, Judy! My job is to find her recipes on the computer (ha ha she wont have anything to do with the computer) and I'm her official taste tester! Sometimes she catches me sneakin' another taste ''just to be sure'' LOL
I love to crochet. Though I'm not queen of crochet-fancy, I can make some mean granny square afghans and cotton dish cloths:) Right now I'm on a project of crocheting wool hats to send to our troops. Ive got to speed it up since their Christmas boxes are going out Nov. 1st!!
