Chocolate Cherry Cake

Chocolate Cherry Cake

from favfamilyrecipes.com
30 min

Chocolate Cherry Cake is rich and moist and tastes just like biting into a luscious cherry chocolate candy. The perfect dessert for Valentine's Day!

Ingredients

  • 1 box Cake Mix ((Devil's Food))
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 cup oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
  • 1 (3 ounce) box cherry instant Jell-o mix
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1/2 cup ice cold water
  • 2 3.4 (3.4 ounce) box chocolate Jell-o instant pudding mix
  • 3 cups milk (2% or whole)
  • 12 Maraschino cherries

Directions

  1. 1

    Mix cake mix, water, oil, and eggs well. Stir in mini chocolate chips. Pour mix into a greased 9x13 pan and bake according to package directions.

  2. 2

    Let cake cool completely - about 1 hour. Using a fork, poke small holes all over the top of the cake.

  3. 3

    Boil 1 cup water in a small saucepan and pour into a small bowl. Add cherry Jell-o mix and stir with a whisk until Jell-o is completely dissolved. Add cold water and stir.

  4. 4

    Pour the hot Jell-o mixture over the cake. Try to drizzle it over evenly. Cover and refrigerate cake for 2 hours.

  5. 5

    While cake is in the refrigerator, mix the chocolate pudding mixes with 3 cups milk (2% or whole). Blend until pudding is completely dissolved. Refrigerate pudding for at least 1 hour.

  6. 6

    Frost the cake with the pudding and keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

  7. 7

    Garnish the cake with mini chocolate chips and maraschino cherries just before serving.