Quick and Easy Manhattan Cake

By Tbird

Ingredients

• Cake:
• 2 (10 oz.) jars maraschino cherries
• 1 box super moist yellow cake mix
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup Maker's Mark bourbon
• 1/4 cup red (sweet) vermouth
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• Glaze:
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 Tbsp Maker's Mark bourbon

Details

Servings 10
Adapted from Nationalcherries.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Drain cherries and reserve 1/4 cup of juice and 6 cherries for garnish; roughly chop remaining cherries.

Combine the cake mix, eggs, bourbon, vermouth, oil and the 1/4 cup reserved cherry juice in a large mixing bowl. Blend with an electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds. Stop and scrape the sides of the bowl and then mix on medium speed for 2 minutes. Fold in the chopped cherries.

Lightly grease or spray a non-stick Bundt pan, and pour batter evenly into pan.

Bake in preheated oven on a lower rack until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean, about 35-40 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through baking. Let cool for 15 minutes in the pan.

While the cake is cooling, make the glaze. IOn a small bowl, mix together the glaze ingredients until smooth.

Unpan the cake onto a cookie sheet or serving platter and drizzle with glaze while cake is still slightly warm. Garnish with reserved maraschino cherries.