On a recent trip to my favorite grocery store, Aldi, I found cherries for .98/lb! My daughter absolutely loves cherries, but we rarely buy them because of their price. This was my opportunity to stock up, so I bought 4 pounds worth. Apparently it was a week for good fruit sales, because I ended up with more fruit than normal–so the cherries ended up being neglected. Not wanting them to go to waste, I began brainstorming on a way to use them up.
I’ve always loved the combination of Chocolate and Cherries, so I decided to make a Chocolate Cherry Pound Cake, using my grandmother’s chocolate pound cake recipe. To make this dessert even more decadent, I added a chocolate cherry glaze. I was thrilled with the results!
Chocolate Cherry Pound Cake
2 sticks butter; softened
½ cup oil
5 eggs
½ tsp salt
½ tsp baking powder
3 cups sugar
3 cups flour
½ cup cocoa
1½ tsp vanilla extract
1¼ cups milk
½-3/4 cup pitted cherries; halved
Cream butter, oil, and sugar with a high speed mixer, until light and fluffy. Add in eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Sift dry ingredients (confession: I usually skip the whole sifting part. 
) and add to egg mixture at low speed. (Trust me on the low speed!) Gradually add milk, then vanilla. Fold in cherries.
Pour into a lightly greased bundt pan (or use silicone). Bake at 350° for 90 minutes. Remove from pan once cooled and glaze, if desired.
Chocolate Glaze
½ cup chocolate chips
½ cup pitted cherries
2 tablespoons milk
In a saucepan melt the chocolate chips and milk. Using an immersion blender*, chop up the cherries. You want them to liquify just a bit, but you also want to leave some cherry chunks. Add the cherries into the melted chocolate and warm for about 5 minutes. Drizzle on top of your Chocolate Cherry Cake–and serve.
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oh… wow!
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Looks ooey gooey delicious! Cherries are still $2.99 here, but I’ll be in the “city” tomorrow. Will stop by Aldi and see what they have!
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NOM NOM NOM
After touring the cherry farm in Michigan a couple of weeks ago I am SO inspired to use more cherries! I wish we lived in Michigan!!! But, I love TExas so, I’ll just have to pay the price
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Chocolate and cherries are such a wonderful combination. I love your recipe!
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I love Aldi’s! I have several bags of frozen cherries in the freezer – I can just imagine them baked up in this cake! Chocolate + cherries = delicious!
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Sounds fantastic and what a great deal on cherries!
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Sounds absolutely divine! Will definitely have to give it a try – we have some cherry lovers around here too!
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I’ve been wanting a good slice of cake for months now!
This sounds yum!
Aloha!
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My husband would love this!
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Oh, wow, talk about taking pound cake up about ten notches. I could live off this.
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Oh my! That looks yummy!
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I think you should make this for my bday Phoebe! btw, I gave you an award. Check out my blog for details.
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this looks so yummy. I love the combination of cherries and chocolate.
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