Chocolate Cherry Cake

Happy Valentine's Day!  I made you chocolate!

I am so excited about this new dessert challenge hosted by Sheryl, of Lady Behind the Curtain.  Today is the inaugural posting for the Behind the Curtain Dessert Challenge.  Each month, Sheryl will announce the two must-have ingredients and a group of bloggers will get to work creating recipes featuring those ingredients.

This month's ingredients are chocolate and cherries.  I immediately started brainstorming recipes I could make: Mike's Grandma's Chocolate and Cherry Cookies, Chocolate Waffles with Cherry Sauce (not a dessert...oops!), Chocolate Filled Cream Puffs with Cherry Sauce, Granola with Chocolate  and Cherries (again, not a dessert!), Chocolate and Cherry Ice-Cream...my mind was swirling with great ideas.  Unfortunately, time got the best of me and after procrastinating, I realized I had only a few days to come up with the perfect recipe. 

Then I remembered a cake I'd had at Mike's Grandma's house.  It was a chocolate and cherry cake and I remember it being so moist and just delicious!  Someone had told me it was quite easy to make--just a box of chocolate cake mix and a can of cherry pie filling.  Easy and delicious?  I was sold! 

After a quick stop at the grocery store to pick up my ingredients, I was ready.  This cake was everything I'd hoped for and then some!  Luckily for me, Mike doesn't like cake, so I get to eat it all myself (just another benefit of being pregnant!)

Chocolate Cherry Cake

Makes 1 9x13" cake

Ingredients:
1 box Devil's Food Cake mix
1 (21 oz.) can Cherry Pie Filling

1.  In a medium bowl, mix together the cake mix and the pie filling.  (The cherries will likely break up, this is normal.)

2.  Pour into a greased 9x13" cake pan.

3.  Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Allow cake to cool before slicing.  Store covered, at room temperature.