Cherry Garcia Cake
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!
Servings: 18
Calories: 1202kcal
Equipment
- 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.
Nutrition
Serving: 18g | Calories: 1202kcal | Carbohydrates: 133g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 74g | Saturated Fat: 46g | Cholesterol: 166mg | Sodium: 446mg | Potassium: 229mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 105g | Vitamin A: 1983IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 205mg | Iron: 3mg