Cha-Cha-Cha Cherry Cake
A fun cherry flavored dump cake named after the famous dance. This is what I'd call a last minute "family" dessert for people who love cake mix, cherries and maybe nostalgia. It smells very good as it bakes.
Servings 8 slices
Cost 5
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter (114 grams)
- 2 bags frozen cherries (24 oz total, 12 oz each) (672 grams)
- 1 box cherry gelatin (4 serving size)
- 1 box white cake mix (15.25 oz) (427 grams)
- 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
- ¼ cup water plus a little more if needed (60 grams)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch square or a 9x13 inch baking pan generously with butter. If you are planning on lifting this from the pan, you can also line with parchment paper.
- Melt the butter gently and set it aside to cool. Alternatively, cut it into very thin slices.
- Spread frozen cherries across the bottom of the pan.
- Sprinkle the gelatin powder evenly over the cherries and lightly toss the cherries in the powder so that some of the powder blends in with their juices.
- Sprinkle the cake mix as evenly as possible over the cherries, shaking the pan gently so that it falls down and around them.
- Drizzle the butter slowly over the cake mix, doing your best to cover it. It won't cover it completely. Alternatively, spread very thin slices of butter evenly over the cake. Drizzle water over the cake as evenly as possible.
- Sprinkle nuts over the top of the buttery crumbs.
- Cover the pan tightly with foil.
- Bake for 50-60 minutes total, removing the foil after the first 30 minutes.
- Serve warm as you would cobbler, or let it cool, then chill and slice. Or serve part now and the refrigerate the leftovers for sliceable leftovers.