Soft Wave Cake

This month’s elegant cake is actually fairly simple to make.

Ingredients

2 cans pitted dark cherries

1-1/8 C soft butter

1 C sugar

1 pinch salt

6 eggs

3 C flour

1 t baking powder

4 T cocoa powder

1 T milk

2 C whipping cream

Vanilla extract

1 T powered sugar

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Drain cherries.

Combine softened butter, sugar and a pinch of salt and beat about 8 minutes until creamy. Continue beating while adding the eggs slowly one at a time.

Mix flour and baking powder together in a separate bowl, then combine into wet ingredients just until mixed.

Place half the dough into a greased 12” x 16” pan.

Into the remaining dough, add 2T of the cocoa powder and the milk, mix thoroughly, and pour on top of the first layer in the pan.

Now place the cherries evenly on top of the dough in the pan.

Place pan into preheated oven and bake for 25-30 minutes. Allow to cool completely.

Beat whipping cream, vanilla extract and powdered sugar until stiff. Place on cooled cake; sift 2T cocoa powder on top.

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