Devil's Delites

So I  somehow ended up with a zillion boxes of cake mix in my cupboards and I never use cake mix.. I decided I best come up with some recipes using them as the base so I could fit actual foods in there lol. So, here is the first of quite a few, recipes based on a cake mix. With the right ingredients added you can do wonderful things to your basic mix. This one starts with a devils food cake mix (hence the devils) and when you bite into it your mouth gets a surprise of wonderful cherries encased in all that chocolate!! Oh so yummy (hence the delites) These were moist and delish. As you will see I used several different toppings, a fluffy cherry almond frosting, a fudge frosting and cherry pie filling. You decide what sounds best for you!

Devils Delites

Ingredients:

1 box devils food cake mix
1/4 c water
3 eggs
1/3 c oil
1/2 of a container of chocolate yogurt (single serving size, you can use cherry or vanilla)
1 can cherry pie filling


Topping: your choice: fluffy cherry almond icing (recipe follows)
Cherry pie filling
Fudge icing
Or do some of each like i did : )



1. Line muffing tins with paper liners

2. Pour cake mix into a large bowl

3. Add, eggs, water, oil and yogurt

 

4. With mixer beat on medium speed until completely blended.

 

5. Fill paper liners 1/2 way with cake batter.

6. Now add a nice teaspoon of cherry pie filling to each liner.

7. Top off with more cake batter.

8. Bake in 350 degree oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until done.

9. Allow to cool completely.

10. Remove cupcakes from muffin tin and frost with desired frosting.

Cherry almond fluffy icing:

Empty a container of fluffy white icing into a small mixing bowl

Add a few spoonfulls of the glaze from the remaining cherry pie filling

Stir until well blended adding more filling until desired taste

Stir in 1/2 t almond extract

 

cool in frig until you are ready to use it so it stiffens up just a tad

Pipe onto cakes and top with a cherry from the remaining pie filling

For Pie filling topped cupcakes

Using an additional can of cherry pie filling, using a melon ball scooper, scoop out the top of each cupcake very carefully. Fill this hole with cherry pie filling

or top them off with your favorite fudge frosting and then use left over cherries from the pie filling to decorate