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Chocolate Cherry Cake

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By: Joanna Cismaru •10/10/22 8 Comments

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Chocolate Cherry Cake – a simple and delicious cherry cake that requires only 3 ingredients and is topped with the best chocolate frosting ever!

A slice of Chocolate Cherry Cake on a plate

I hope you all had a great weekend so let’s start the week right by celebrating with cake. Today I want to share with you a super easy cake with only 3 ingredients and of course the best chocolate frosting ever! What better way to start a new week than with cake. If you love cherries and chocolate you will love this cake.

The ingredients in the cake are angel food cake mix, eggs and cherry pie filling. 3 simple ingredients that you probably have in the house right now. This cake would be delicious even without the frosting but of course we cannot have cake with no frosting.

Process shot making Chocolate Cherry Cake

This frosting is something else, it’s so good and wrong and right, so chocolatey, so sweet, it’s chocolate for crying out loud. And what’s cake without chocolate. We have butter, milk, semi sweet chocolate chip and powdered sugar which you cook for a couple minutes over medium heat and magic happens. It transforms into this delicious sauce which you have to pour over the cake while the cake is warm and let it cool. As the cake cools, the chocolate sauce turns into this yummy frosting which if I could I’d bathe in it. Though I think I’d rather eat it.

Now as much as I love you all my friends, I’m going to leave you now and go and have a piece of this cake while it still exists in my fridge. Care to join?

Process shot making Chocolate Cherry Cake

Other Delicious Recipes To Try

  • Cherry Rolls
  • Cherry Clafoutis
  • Kale Cherry Salad
  • Cherry Cobbler
  • Homemade Cherry Pie

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4.13 from 8 votes

Chocolate Cherry Cake

Prep 5 minutes
Cook 40 minutes
Total 45 minutes
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Chocolate Cherry Cake – a simple and delicious cherry cake that requires only 3 ingredients and is topped with the best chocolate frosting ever!
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Ingredients

For Cake

  • 1 box angel food cake mix
  • 2 eggs
  • 21 ounce cherry pie filling ((1 can))

For Frosting

  • 5 tablespoon butter (unsalted)
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1 cup powdered sugar

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Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 350 F degrees. Spray a 9×13 inch baking pan.
  • In the bowl of your mixer add the angel food cake mix, eggs and cherry pie filling. Beat with the mixer for a couple minutes.
  • Pour batter in the prepared baking pan and bake for about 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cake.
  • Meanwhile add all frosting ingredients in medium sauce pan and cook over medium heat for a couple minutes until nice and smooth.
  • Pour chocolate frosting over warm cake. Let cool completely before cutting into it.

Notes

Please keep in mind that nutritional information is a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

Nutrition Information

Serving: 1sliceCalories: 302kcal (15%)Carbohydrates: 51g (17%)Protein: 3g (6%)Fat: 9g (14%)Saturated Fat: 5g (31%)Cholesterol: 33mg (11%)Sodium: 267mg (12%)Potassium: 152mg (4%)Fiber: 1g (4%)Sugar: 31g (34%)Vitamin A: 245IU (5%)Vitamin C: 1.4mg (2%)Calcium: 69mg (7%)Iron: 1mg (6%)
© Author Joanna Cismaru

Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.

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Lillian
Lillian
Posted: 4 years ago

Hi Jo
This cake looks amazing. Looking to make it for Christmas. What is the green topping shown in he above pic?

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Joanna Cismaru
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Posted: 4 years ago

Hi Lilian! That’s green maraschino cherries. 🙂

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Amanda
Amanda
Posted: 5 years ago

4 stars
I had no chocolate chips so I substituted white chocolate and added almond extract. It was fabulous.

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anna
anna
Posted: 6 years ago

hello Jo, hope this message finds you well. I love your site and your recipes and have just tried your carrot cake recipe which turned out fabulous!

i cannot find angel cake mix in my country….do you have ideas for a good substitute?

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Joanna Cismaru
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Posted: 6 years ago

Hi Anna!
If you can’t find angel food cake mix, here’s how you make it: Mix together thoroughly 1 cup cake flour, 1 cup confectioners sugar and 1 tsp salt in a zip lock bag and keep in a dry cool place like the refrigerator. Hope this helps.

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Liz
Liz
Posted: 7 years ago

Another lovely cake. Thank you Jo and have a good week.

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Joanna Cismaru
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Posted: 7 years ago

Thank you Liz! 🙂

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Amallia @DesireToEat
Amallia @DesireToEat
Posted: 8 years ago

wow..chocolate and cherry …..perfect combo. The cake looks tempting, great pictures!

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