Recipe of Favorite Cherry Nut Cake

Hello everybody, welcome to our recipe page. Today I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, Cherry Nut Cake. It is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna really delicious.

Cherry Nut Cake Recipe.

You can have Cherry Nut Cake using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cherry Nut Cake

1. Take 1 box of white cake mix (yellow will work also).
2. Prepare 1 of small box instant vanilla pudding (I prefer French vanilla).
3. It’s 1 of small jar Maraschino cherries drained, but save the juice (reserve 3 tablespoons juice for frosting).
4. Make ready 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts or pecans.
5. You need 3 of eggs.
6. You need 1/3 cup of oil vegetable or canola.
7. Make ready 3/4 cup of water (up to 3/4 cup can be used, use your cherry juice minus 3 tablespoons, plus water to equal 1 cup).
8. You need of Cherry Buttercream icing (see last step of instructions if you want to use canned icing).
9. Prepare 1 stick of room temperature butter or margarine.
10. It’s 3 tablespoon of Cherry juice.
11. Make ready 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
12. Make ready of Milk if needed.
13. Make ready 4 cups of or more of Powdered sugar.

Cherry Nut Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees farenheit.
2. Chop 12 cherries into halves or thirds and put into mix last..
3. Mix cake mix and pudding mix together..
4. Set aside 3 tablespoons cherry juice for icing..
5. Pour remaining cherry juice into a 1 cup measure and add water to equal one cup..
6. To the dry mixture add the 1 cup of juice/water mixture, oil, eggs, beating about 2 minutes till well mixed then add 1/4 cup chopped nuts, chopped cherries and mix those in..
7. Bake. Cupcakes take about 20 min, bundt 45-50 min, 9x13 pan 25-33 min. Use the cake mix instruction as a guide. Cake is done when toothpick inserted comes out clean..
8. Cherry Buttercream icing, beat the butter, 3 tablespoons cherry juice and vanilla til well mixed. start adding powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, mixing well,If mixture is too thin add more powdered sugar. Too thick add a splash of milk. Use at least 3 cups powdered sugar. Frost cake while frosting is still soft then sprinkle with remaining nuts, cut additional cherries in half and decorate cake. I refrigerate the cake until the icing is dry, then it can sit out at room temperature..
9. You can use canned cream cheese icing, whip the cherry juice into it and add powdered sugar until icing is stiff..