Maraschino Cherry Cake Recipe
This cherry chip cake recipe is a light and fluffy cake flavored with sweet maraschino cherry juice and filled with chopped cherry pieces. It’s topped with a smooth and creamy buttercream frosting that’s bursting with cherry flavor. The result is a decadent dessert that looks beautiful and tastes even better.
Servings: 12 servings
Calories: 278kcal
Ingredients
For the Cake:
- 1 box white cake mix 18.75 ounce cake mix
- 6 oz. maraschino cherries divided (save the juice), plus extra for garnish
- 1/2 cup salted butter melted
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup maraschino cherry juice
For the Cherry Buttercream Frosting:
- 1 stick butter
- 1 lb. confecitoner’s sugar
- 4 Tbsp. milk
- 1 Tbsp. maraschino cherry juice
- Stemmed cherries for the top
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray a 9x13 baking dish with cooking spray and set aside.
- Drain (and save) cherry juice and chop cherries into fine pieces.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, add the cake mix, chopped cherries, melted butter, eggs, vanilla, water, and 1/2 cup cherry juice. Mix until batter is combined.
- Pour cake batter into prepared baking dish.
- Bake 25 minutes until golden brown or a toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean.
- Remove cake from oven and let cool.
- While cake is cooling, make the frosting.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl of an electric mixer add butter, confectioner’s sugar, and a tablespoon of cherry juice. Cream together. Add milk one tablespoon at a time and mix after each tablespoon until desired consistency is reached.
- Frost cooled cake.
- Add stemmed cherries to the top of the cake for decoration.
- Slice and serve.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 278kcal | Carbohydrates: 81g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 62mg | Sodium: 379mg | Potassium: 74mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 25g | Vitamin A: 310IU | Calcium: 118mg | Iron: 1mg