Cherry and Chocolate Sheet Cake Recipe

When you eat cherries, you enjoy much more than just their amazing taste. They’re packed with antioxidants and offer many health benefits, including help with insomnia, joint pain and belly fat. Another benefit is the wood of some cherry species that is especially esteemed for the manufacture of fine furniture.

As Spring and Summer arrive, take them in with some fresh cherries, and try out this delicious cherry and chocolate sheet cake recipe.

Cherries are a good source of melatonin, which helps us fall asleep, and have been found to help with jet lag. Cherries also have the highest antioxidant level of any fruit. Antioxidants help the body fight the free radicals that essentially make us look old. Drinking one glass of cherry juice daily is said to slow down the aging process, according to Scientists from the Michigan State University. Source: care2.com

Hand picking is widely used to harvest cherries to avoid damage to the fruit and trees. Of course, we also know “cherry picking” as the act of pointing to individual data that seems to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related data that may contradict that position.

In sports, “cherry picking” refers to someone who prefers to take only easy shots. The origins of this term may come from the notion of "cherry picking" as picking only things that are easily obtained, or only what suits your taste, as a cherry might.

Cherry and Chocolate Sheet Cake

  • 1 Devil's Food cake Mix
  • 1 can (21-ounces) cherry fruit pie filling
  • 1 teaspoon almond extract
  • 2 eggs, beaten

Heat oven to 350°. Grease and flour 13x9-inch pan. In large bowl, combine all cake ingredients. By hand, stir until well mixed. Pour into greased and floured pan. Bake at 350° for 25 to 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

In small saucepan, combine sugar, butter and milk. Bring to a boil; boil 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in chocolate chips until smooth. Pour and spread over warm cake.

Enjoy! 🙂

Cherry Pick These 100-Year-Old Chocolate Recipes

We found an old book and got the rights to publish it for you. Now these 138 recipes from 1909 are available as a digital download. Take a look here.

Photo: "Cherries" by Andrew Malone is licensed under CC BY 2.0 / cropped from original.

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