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Moist chocolate cake filled with fresh cherries, all frosted with a cherry vanilla buttercream. Because cherries right now are plentiful, affordable, and at their best. Because everyone loves a good chocolate cake. Because my obsession with Italian meringue buttercream continues. And because when all three are combined you have a cake that absolutely no one can resist.

I give you, Cherry Chocolate Cake with Cherry Vanilla Buttercream.

Growing up my Dad’s favorite cake, the one my Mom would bake for him on his birthday, was a very simple cherry chocolate cake. It was just a boxed cake mix with a can of cherry pie filling added but it was a treat that I grew to look forward to each year.

Fast forward fifteen or so years and I can’t remember the last time I had a piece or even thought about it. Then during some down time at Evo a few weeks ago, my friend Kelley told me about some brownies she had made with fresh cherries and how incredible they were.

It was like a light bulb went on in my head. Not only did I at once remember the cherry chocolate cake of my youth, but I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. I had to recreate it. And so I did. I started with a basic devils food cake and added about half a pound of pitted cherries directly into the batter before baking. The filling I created is essentially an improved homemade version of cherry pie filling, made with cherries, kirsch (a cherry liquor), and some sugar. I would have been more than happy to eat that all by itself.

My Mom always iced my Dad’s cake with a chocolate glaze, but I decided I wanted something lighter. I whipped up some Italian meringue buttercream and flavored it with more kirsch and vanilla.

Not only is it a beautiful dessert, but it was exactly what I had hoped it would be— cherries meets chocolate in a sophisticated cake. Yield: Triple layer 8-inch cake

Cherry Chocolate Cake with Cherry Vanilla Buttercream

Moist chocolate cake filled with sweet cherries, all frosted with a cherry vanilla buttercream. 

Cherry Chocolate Cake:

Cherry Filling:

Cherry Vanilla Italian Meringue Buttercream:


To make the cake:

To make the filling:

To make the buttercream:

Note: See my tips for building a layered cake for additional help.
Cake recipe adapted from Sky High Cakes. Frosting recipe adapted from Cake Art.

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