Recipe#4012

Title: Chocolate Cherry

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: eastman@solstice.jpl.nasa.gov (Sherri Eastman) 
 Subject: Choclate Cherry Cake 
 Message-ID: <199403292143.NAA04140@solstice.jpl.nasa.gov> 
 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 13:43:47 -0800 

2 cups all-purpose flour
 3/4 cup sugar          
 3/4 cup vegetable oil 
 2 eggs               
 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
 1 teaspoon baking soda    
 1 teasp. ground cinnamon
 1/8 teaspoon salt
 21 oz can cherry pie filling
 6 oz semisweet chocolate chips
 1 cup chopped nuts
 confectioners sugar
 Preheat the oven to 350.  Butter and flour a bundt pan or 10-inch
 tube pan.
 In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla, baking
 soda, cinnamon and salt.  Mix well.  Stir in the cherries and their
 liquid the chocolate chips and nuts.
 Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 1 hour,
 until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
 Cool on rack and remove from the pan to cool completely.
 To serve, sprinkle with confectioners sugar, if desired.
 serves 16