Hey guys! I mean, girls. 😉
It’s me, Lily!
Have you seen the new Star Wars movie? The Force Awakens? I have – two weeks ago actually. It is AWESOME!! I love it so much I made a shape poem all about BB8. He’s the new droid in the movie. My favorite person in the movie is Rey. She’s a scavenger from Jakku who realizes she has the force. She’s kind of the main character. The movie is PG-13, and I can’t watch those movies until I’m older, so my parents rented it on VidAngel which edits the movie and takes out all the bad words and violet parts, so your kids can watch it. I also read the book of the movie so I knew when they took out a violent part. 😉 I think you’ll love it!
Speaking of things you’ll love, I think you’ll REALLY like this Cherry Sheet Cake. My favorite part is all of it because I love cherries. I really like the frosting because my mom put in her favorite ingredient: almond extract!! We also put in love which makes it really good. 😀 We have tried a lot of fruity cakes recently, but this one has to be my favorite. My second favorite is Fruit Pizza – it’s so good!! If you love cherries, then you gotta try this dessert. It’s AMAZING!
Here’s the recipe:
Cherry Sheet Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 package white cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup oil
- 1/2 cup water
- 3 oz cherry instant jello
- 10-12 oz maraschino cherries drained
Almond Buttercream Frosting
- 1/4 cup butter softened
- 4 oz cream cheese softened
- 2 tsp almond extract
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 2-3 tbsp milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Begin by adding your cherries to a blender or food processor and blending.
- Mix cake mix, eggs, oil and water in a large bowl until well blended. Add JELL-O mix and pureed cherries. Mix well.
- Pour into a greased 9x13 pan.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- Let cake cool.
- While cake is cooling make frosting by creaming together the butter and cream cheese. Add powdered sugar, almond extract, and milk - blend well. Frost cake. ENJOY!
YUMMY!
I hope you can come back again soon for more yummy treats from me.
Love, Lily
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Love, Lily!
Is this the instant gelatin cherry jello?
Yes 🙂 Hope you like it!! Thanks!
So yummy! One of the best cakes I’ve ever made. I made them into cupcakes for a church event and everyone loved them!
Oh, thank you!! We love this recipe, too!! That’s a great option, to make them into cupcakes! I’m honestly not sure what happened with the cherry bars. I haven’t had that happen before. I’m sorry!
I also made the sheet cake with a chocolate cake mix and it was very good as well. I used extra cherries and it was very tasty. I made the cherry bars also and the bottom came out very soggy..what do u think went wrong?
Made the cherry sheet cake for our pizza bingo party at church. Could not find instant cherry jello
A employee googled it and said I could get it on ebay. Well not going that route so tried another
Store no luck. So I tried it with the regular cherry jello and baked it for the same amount of time
It turned out delicious and worked. So those of you who can not find instant jello just a note regular
Works.
Enjoy!
Thank you for sharing that!! I am so glad it worked and that you liked it!
If I use a round cake pan. Will this be the same recipe or will I have to alter it?
I haven’t made it in a round pan, but I’m guessing you would divide the batter into two, since those are a lot smaller. Usually the cooking time is a little longer, since it is smaller, but I wouldn’t know how long. It’s one of those, where you’d need to just keep an eye on it.
My frosting came out nothing like the picture. Your recipe is 2-3 tablespoons of milk? Frosting was runny. What’s the secret!? Thanks in advance!
Add more powdered sugar, if it’s too runny. If it’s too thick, then you would add more milk. Enjoy!
Love the different unique recipes Thk U
Thank you!! Hope you find some to try!
where can u get the cherry jello instant recipe calls for is it pudding are regular jello
It is jello & you should be able to find it in the baking aisle 🙂 Hope you try it!
I love your FOOD it looks so delicious i would really like to make this
Awe, thank you so much! I hope you so try this!!
There is mo such thing as instAnt chErry jellO
Looks good.Making it this weekend.My grandkids will love this recipe.we are sure going to Enjoy it.
I hope you did!!!
Can you use black cherry jello iN this or does it have to be regular cherry
You sure could 🙂
Hello! I made this for Fathers day tomorrow. How should i store it? Fridge or counter?
I like to keep this one in the fridge, because of the cool whip 🙂
I love cherry anything, and im making this cake but all i have is black cherry jello, will this work?
Yes, for sure 🙂 I’ve tried it with so many flavors! Enjoy!
Every year for mY husband’s birthday I make him a cherry cake. Every year they were just so-so. Tried this reCipe and EVERYONE just raved about how good it was. It was so flavorFul and moist. I made a two layer cake. I doubled the icing recipe, we love icing. It did dip a little in the center but i just filled it with icing to make it level. Lol
Perfect!! I am so glad you tried this & it was a hit! Thank you!
Do you have a picture of your 2 layer cake?
Can I use 1/2 cup of orange juice instead of water? I think I’m going to make this cake recipe for Christmas this year.
I was so hurt, don’t know why but my cake sunk in the middle!
I’m so sorry! Sometimes ovens are calibrated a little differently and the resulting temperature is slightly different and that can cause a cake to sink in the middle. I’m not sure if this is what happened in your case but I hope this recipe works out for you next time. Thanks so much for trying it!
Made this cake today. To me it was overly sweet. Next time I’ll leave out the cherries and add one tablespoon of the syrup to the frosting.
Let me know how it goes the second time around. I would love to hear!
I have a church picnic/potluck in a few days and decided to make this cake. I am going to decorate it for the July 4th celebrations which were just last week. Now, onto finding a Mexican layered dip for the same event. I think I will browse your recipes to see if I can find a good one to take along with the cake. Thanks for your recipes and input.
You’re welcome! I hope the cake is a hit and that you were able to find another recipe that might work for your dip. A few of my favorites are our 7 Layer Bean Dip, Cream Cheese Bean Dip and our Chicken Enchilada Dip, but we have even more Mexican dips on our site too. 🙂