Cherry Garcia Cake

5 from 1 vote

Cherry Garcia Cake is a stack of vanilla cherry cake layers with homemade cherry icing. This cherry chocolate chip cake is up to bakery standards!

Prep Time30

Cook Time30

Total Time1

Course: Cake, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cherry cake recipe, chocolate chip cake, vanilla cherry cake

Servings:

Calories: 1202kcal

Author: Jill

Equipment

3 9-inch round cake pans
1 10-inch round cake board
1 Cake leveler
1 angled spatula
1 large angled spatula
1 large piping bag fitted with large star tip

Ingredients

Cake Ingredients

2 boxes French vanilla cake mix
2 cups whole milk
1 cup unsalted butter softened
6 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 cups Chopped Maraschino cherries
2 cups Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips

Cherry Frosting Ingredients

2 cups unsalted butter softened
4 cups Powdered sugar
3 teaspoons Cherry extract
3-6 drops red gel food coloring

Vanilla Frosting Ingredients

3 cups unsalted sweet cream butter softened
6 cups powdered sugar
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
3-6 tablespoons heavy whipping cream

Decoration Ingredients

1 cup mini chocolate chips
Chocolate shaving sprinkles
1/2 cup Maraschino cherries with stem

Instructions

Cake Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray cake pans with pam baking spray.
Using a standing mixer, beat all cake ingredients together until combined and well mixed.
Fold in the chopped cherries and chocolate chips.
Divide the batter evenly between the three cake pans.
Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean in the center.
Allow to cool completely on the counter.

Frosting Directions

Using a standing mixer, beat together all cherry frosting ingredients for 5-7 minutes or until frosting is smooth and combined with stiff peaks.
Scoop into a bowl and set aside.
Clean out the mixer bowl.
Using the vanilla frosting ingredients, beat together in the standing mixer for 5-7 minutes or until frosting is smooth and combined with stiff peaks.
Scoop 1 1/2 C of the white frosting into the piping bag and set aside.

Building the cake directions

Using the cake leveler, cut the domes off the cake rounds to make them leveled.
Place one cake round onto the cake board.
Scoop 1 1/2 C of the cherry frosting onto the top of the cake and smooth evenly with the angled spatula.
Place another cake round on top of the first one.
Scoop another 1 1/2 C of the cherry frosting onto the second cake round and smooth evenly.
Place the third cake round on top of the second one.
Scoop remaining white frosting onto the top of the cake and frost entire cake.
Sprinkle the mini chocolate chips around the bottom of the cake.
Pipe dollops of frosting along the top of the cake.
Sprinkle the chocolate shavings onto the dollops.
Top the dollops with Cherries.

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