You may have noticed that I have a fondness for cupcakes. They’re small, cute, versatile, delicious, little gems of pure baked happiness! For Mother’s Day, I decided to try a new cupcake recipe. I am delighted that this Chocolate Cherry Coca Cola Cupcake recipe turned out to be even better than I had anticipated. I hope you’ll try them, because they are truly delicious!
Ingredients:
1 package chocolate cake mix (I used Betty Crocker Moist Supreme Devils Food)
Eggs and oil per cake mix instructions
1 can Coca Cola
1 8 ounce jar maraschino cherries in syrup
1 21 ounce can cherry pie filling, lightly drained
Your favorite Butter Cream Frosting Recipe plus 2 tablespoons maraschino cherry syrup or 2 tubs of cream cheese frosting with 2 tablespoons of maraschino cherry syrup whipped into it.
How to make them:
Prepare cake mix according to package directions, except substitute coca cola for water.
Add maraschino cherry syrup and cherry pie filling. Mix on low speed until combined.
Line muffin cups with paper baking cups. Pour batter into cups, almost to the top (these cupcakes don’t rise a lot) and bake according to directions for cupcakes.
Cool completely, frost with cherry frosting and top each cupcake with a maraschino cherry.
Enjoy!
Recipe yields approximately 30 cupcakes.
Oh how I love thee…Chocolate Cherry Coca Cola Cupcake!
If you enjoyed this recipe, check out my recipe for Cracker Barrel Double Fudge Coca Cola Cake (copycat recipe)!
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These look great! Another recipe that makes me wish I wasn’t allergic to chocolate…
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Awww! I bet it would also be good using a yellow cake mix!
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These look amazingly delicious! I love subbing things in while making cupcakes. The cola makes them soooo moist and tasty, doesn’t it? Oh shoot… I’m supposed to be on a diet.
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Oh, I forgot to mention these are DIET cupcakes! LOL!
Wow these look so yummy! Added to my recipe collection….thanks!
These seem like they would be really moist.
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Wow this sounds amazing. Love the idea of diet cupcakes lol. Will definitely share this on my FB wall. Thank you
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These look amazing! I can’t wait to make them, YUM!
These look so delicious! I would love to try them.
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can’t wait to go home and make these! Sounds delicious!!
Love this recipe! I love the combination of chocolate and cherries so these look yummy!
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Such a delicious combination!
I never thought of using cheery cola as an ingredient before. What an interesting idea! And I love the cherry on top. =)
This looks so yummy! I’ll sub Diet Coke though!
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This will surely a tasty cupcake, i like the glistening look of the cheery on the top of the cupcake. Makes it look so inviting.
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I love cherry coke would this also be okay to use in it to add more cherry flavor?
Sounds great to me!
I just made these and they were raw inside even after baking an extra 15 min. They were burnt on the bottom but raw in the middle. Any ideas? I think it’s cause their to wet… Gonna try again this time gonna use cherry coke and put pie filling in the middle and not gonna add the cherry juice. I’ll let y’all know how they turn out. I also subbed unsweetened applesauce for the oil I always do makes cakes and cupcakes a teensy bit better for you. Thank you!
Oh no! I have now made these a few times and they have turned out really good. They are super moist cupcakes. I wonder if cooking on a lower temp would help? That’s a good idea to omit the extra cherry juice and substituting the applesauce. Please let me know how they turn out.