My treat of choice is always a baked good. Not a candy bar or ice cream or chips. It must be a cake, cookie, donut or pie. That’s just the way it is. I love fancied up cakes, especially. I took a regular chocolate cake mix and added a few extra ingredients to make it more dense and delicious, kinda like the kind you get from a bakery. Then I added marshmallows. Then Lucky Leaf pie filling. The result is this to-die-for Cherry Chocolate Marshmallow Cake. Valentine’s Day is coming up so why not make this cake for your special someone? What says, ” I Love You” more than chocolate? And cherries? And cake? Put it all together and they will know just how crazy about them you are!
The marshmallows go into the bottom of the baking dish and when it bakes up, the marshmallows end up at the top of the cake. This makes a yummy chewy texture flavored like roasted marshmallows. And you add the pie filling to the top of the batter, which ends up in the bottom. So the marshmallows and pie filling just swap places.
See that gooey-ness at the top? That’s your marshmallows. I can’t even tell you how delicious this cake is.
Especially once you add Lucky Leaf cherry pie filling. Amazing. Your mouth will go crazy for this cake.
Ingredients
1 (18.25 oz) chocolate cake mix (I used Devil’s Food Cake)
1 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/3 cup water
2 Tbsp. oil
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup plain greek yogurt or sour cream
4 eggs
4 cups mini marshmallows
1 (21 oz) can Lucky Leaf cherry pie filling
powdered sugar for dusting
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Spray the bottom of a 9×13 dish with baking spray.
- Sprinkle marshmallows into pan and set aside.
- Mix together cake mix, flour, sugar and salt.
- Add the water, oil, vanilla, yogurt or sour cream and eggs; mix 2 minutes with electric mixer.
- Pour over marshmallows and smooth out.
- Place spoonfuls of cherry pie filling over batter, about every inch or so apart.
- Bake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean.
- Cool and dust with powdered sugar.
- Serve.
Lucky Leaf provided me with sample of pie filling for this post at no cost.
All thoughts are my own.
All thoughts are my own.
I can't seem to find 18.25 oz cake mixes any more (the whole smaller package-same price/fool the stupid consumer nonsense)… have you made this with the smaller cake mixes? (I think they are in the 15-ish oz. range now.) Thanks!
Yes, the 15ish oz would work. As long as it makes a 9×13 pan size.
Love the idea of mixing Lucky Leaf pie filling with chocolate cake. Yum!
should this be self rising flour or all purpose? also what would cause some of the marshmallows to not come to the top? any tips? The cake was great but looked nothing like the picture
All purpose flour and I have no idea why yours didn't turn out. I just did what I wrote in the instructions and my cake turned out as you see. Make sure you spray or grease the pan well.