Got this from a now defunct PBS cooking show (don't even remember what it was called; a couple of guys from somewhere in the South) with a few changes.

Cake:
3 large eggs
1 tsp pure almond extract
1 - 21 oz can cherry pie filling
1 box Duncan Hines chocolate cake mix (any kind WITHOUT the pudding already in it)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9" by 13" GLASS (see NOTE below) baking dish. In a large bowl, beat the 3 eggs, with a whisk or a fork, until well blended; stir in the almond extract and cherry pie filling. Add the dry cake mix and stir just until blended (don't use a hand mixer, or you'll mash the cherries to smithereens). Pour into the prepared baking dish and bake in the preheated oven for 30 - 35 minutes, or until a pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Start the frosting just after the cake comes out of the oven.

Frosting:
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter or margarine
1 - 3 oz can evaporated milk (not condensed)
1 cup granulated sugar
1 - 6 oz pkg semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Combine all the frosting ingredients in a medium saucepan and heat to boiling, stirring occasionally, over medium heat; let boil 2 minutes, then remove from heat. Stir in the chocolate chips until melted; stir in vanilla extract. Pour over the warm (not hot) cake; let cool. Enjoy!

NOTE: If you make this cake in a metal pan, and let it sit for a day or so, the acid in the cherries will begin eating into the metal.
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08-17-02, 08:25 AM
sonnet26
For the frosting. Combine only the first three ingredients in the medium saucepan. Add the last two frosting ingredients at the end. Sorry for the goof.

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