How To Make Chocolate Cherry Texas Sheet Cake
The rich homemade chocolate cake base for this Texas sheet cake recipe is dotted with cherry pie filling, for a sweet surprise in every bite.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Chocolate Cake Batter:
- 2cupsflour
- 2cupswhite sugar
- 1tspbaking soda
- ½tspsalt
- ½cupsour cream
- 2large eggs
- 1cupunsalted butter
- ¾cupwater
- 5tbspunsweetened cocoa powder
- 20ozcherry pie filling,(1 can)
For Chocolate Frosting:
- 6tbspmilk
- 5tbspunsweetened cocoa powder
- ½cupunsalted butter
- 4cupspowdered sugar
- 1tspvanilla extract
- 20maraschino cherries,for topping
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 10×15-inch sheet pan or jelly roll pan.
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Combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Beat in the sour cream and eggs. Set aside.
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Stir the cocoa mixture into the egg mixture, mixing until blended. Fold in the pie filling.
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Pour the batter into prepared pan.
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Bake in the oven for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Frosting:
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In a large saucepan, combine the milk, cocoa and butter. Bring to a boil, then remove from heat.
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Stir in the confectioners sugar and vanilla, mixing until blended.
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Spread chocolate frosting over warm cake, and put cherries in a grid over the cake, 1 for each slice.
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Serve, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 406.93kcal
- Fat: 16.09g
- Saturated Fat: 9.89g
- Trans Fat: 0.56g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4.23g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.74g
- Carbohydrates: 65.53g
- Fiber: 1.67g
- Sugar: 45.90g
- Protein: 2.97g
- Cholesterol: 58.64mg
- Sodium: 141.85mg
- Calcium: 30.21mg
- Potassium: 111.58mg
- Iron: 0.74mg
- Vitamin A: 139.58µg
- Vitamin C: 1.07mg
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