Easy Cherry Garcia Cake that is loaded with sweet chocolate morsels, moist cake, and sweet maraschino cherries. Serve up this maraschino cherry cake today and watch your family ask for seconds.
Ingredients
1Cmini semi sweet chocolate chips
1white cake mix; divided
3/4Cwater
1/2Csour cream
1/3Cvegetable oil
1TSPalmond extract
4eggs; just use egg whites
210 ounce jars maraschino cherries; divided, drain and reserve juice and chop cherries
Frosting:
1Cbutter, softened to room temp
4Cpowdered sugar
1TSPalmond extract
Instructions
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Spray a 9 x 13 inch baking dish with a flour based cooking spray.
In a small bowl; combine the chocolate chips with 1 TBSP of the dry cake mix.
Mix until all of the chocolate chips are covered.
In a large mixing bowl; beat together the remaining cake mix, water, sour cream, vegetable oil, almond extract, and egg whites on low speed for about 30 seconds.
Then at medium speed for about 2 minutes.
Chop the cherries and be sure to pat them dry with a paper towel..
Stir in 1 cup of the cherries and the chocolate chips into the cake batter; then pour into the prepared pan.
(Remember to reserve the juice and 15 cherries for the frosting!)
Bake for about 32-35 minutes.
Cool completely before frosting.
Frosting:
Beat the softened butter and powdered sugar together until smooth; then add in the almond extract and 1/3 cup cherry juice.
Mix until well blended, adjust as needed until desired consistency is reached.
When you get to the desired consistency, stir in 15 chopped cherries that have been patted dry with a paper towel.