Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Cherry Coffee Cake


If you're on a diet, you don't want to stick around for this, I promise you. It'll only mess up all your hard work, and I'd feel awful about that.

But then I'd have this cake to console myself with, so I'd get over it quick enough.

If you need to whip something together to take to a party, or if you just want a treat, you might want to give this recipe a try. It's one of my go to recipes, and the best part is that I can make it with stuff that I normally keep in my pantry.

Here's what you need to make the cake: 1 box of yellow cake mix, 1 C flour, 1 pkg. yeast (or 2-1/4 tsp.), warm water, 2 eggs, 1 can cherry pie filling, 1/3 C cold butter, 1 C powdered sugar, and 1 T corn syrup.

Now I realize that my pantry might not look like your pantry. Take my Mama Llama for instance. Whenever I go visit her, if I want to make a treat, any treat, I have to go to the store to buy every blinking thing in the recipe. She's so granola crunchy, she doesn't keep any white flour in the house at all, and the small amount of sugar she does have is all melded together into a small sugar brick. Plus everything is organic. Not that that's a bad thing.

I should eat like her. At my Mama Llama's house, if I want a little wheat germ or flax seed snack, I can have a part-aaaaay and invite the whole neighborhood over, but chocolate chip cookies? Forget it.

Hey Mama Llama, this cake's for you. It has no nutritional value whatsoever. Just empty calories. Sweet, sweet, empty calories.

You could probably count the cherry pie filling as a fruit serving though. It was fruit once.

Here's the recipe card. Enjoy!

13 comments:

  1. Now I am mad that I read this tongiht when i have no intention of getting back up and cooking. But I think this is what I will start the day with tomorrow...!

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  2. This recipe, and a pending visit from my mama's bread machine, and I really need to add yeast to the pantry!
    PS~A new post from Jill is a smile waiting on the computer! You should make a Facebook group just for us uber nerds! Especially now that we can "like" you instead of just "fan" you

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  3. I've made that before and it is YUMMY!!!!!

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  4. Oooo...that would be perfect for a Mother's Day brunch:-)

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  5. That looks so yummy! Even those of us trying to lose weight & get healthy could indulge in a little of this as long as we didn't eat the whole pan.

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  6. Oh my WORD that looks DELICIOUS!!!

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  7. Wow! This looks so delicious!! Somethings are worth the calories..In moderation. Right? Ha Ha..I could eat the whole thing all by myself. Thanks for sharing!!

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  8. I MUST have this now! I love anything cherry & this looks so amazing! Thank you for sharing it!

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  9. THAT looks fabulous!!!!! I guess I won't diet yet after all.

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  10. i just gained 5 lbs looking at all that yumminess, but i'm gonna make it anyway! thanks for sharing!

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  11. If that tastes HALF as good as it looks, I'm in trouble! :)

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  12. I made this dessert and wrote about it here. Even my cherry hating daughter was asking for seconds! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe.

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