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Easy Chocolate Cherry Cake Recipe
by myra byanka

Easy Chocolate Cherry Cake

Use a cake mix and canned cherry filling for this delicious, easy prep dessert.
Add a bit of red food coloring to the icing to make it pink, if you like.

Rating: 5/5
Avg. 5/5 1 vote
Prep time: United States American
Cook time: Servings: 12

Goes Well With: Coffee

Ingredients

  • 1 box devil's food, or other chocolate cake
  • 1 can cherry pie filling, divided
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 2 tbs. melted butter
  • 1/4 cup applesauce
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 can buttercream, white, pink vanilla,or chocolate frosting, or see links for homemade

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 350 F.
  2. Remove the cherry filling from the can.
  3. Seperate the cherries from the liquid filling, coarsely chop.
  4. Return the cherries to the filling, stir.
  5. Mix the eggs with the melted butter and applesauce.
  6. Add the cake mix and 1/2 of the filling.
  7. Grease and flour a bundt pan (Use cocoa, if you have it.)
  8. Pour the cake batter into the pan, bake 35-40 minutes, or until toothpick test is clean.
  9. Let cake cool, invert, move to a wire rack.
  10. Frost the cake, gently move to a cake platter.
  11. Pour the rest of the cherry pie filling on top so it drizzles down the sides.