Easy Chocolate Cherry Cake Recipe (One Bowl and Four Layer) Recipe
This Easy Chocolate Cherry Cake is a decadent four-layer treat made with a moist chocolate cake base, a homemade cherry jam, and a rich cream cheese frosting infused with cherry jam. Perfect for celebrations or indulgent dessert cravings, this recipe requires just one bowl for the cake batter and yields a made-from-scratch, bakery-quality cake that is surprisingly simple to prepare at home.
- Time: 50 min
- Servings: 8
Source: All Yum Cooks
Ingredients
- all-purpose flour
- unsweetened cocoa powder
- teaspoon baking powder
- teaspoon baking soda
- teaspoon salt
- neutral oil
- granulated sugar
- large eggs, room temperature
- teaspoon vanilla extract
- milk, room temperature
- chocolate chips or chopped dark chocolate
- pitted cherries, fresh or frozen
- teaspoons lemon juice
- full-fat cream cheese, cold
- unsalted butter, room temperature
- to 2 ½ cups powdered sugar, sifted
- of salt
- tablespoons cooled cherry jam from above
- Optional: 1 tablespoon cornstarch or milk powder for stability
- lemon juiced