Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, cherry nut cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Cherry Nut Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Cherry Nut Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have cherry nut cake using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cherry Nut Cake:

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

Instructions to make Cherry Nut Cake:

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.

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