Categories: Desserts

Ingredients

• Deluxe cake mix
• 3 large eggs
• 2 1/2 cups whole milk ricotta cheese
• 1 cup confetioner's sugar
• 1 tablespoon rum or brandy
• 4 ounces chocolate, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup maraschino cherries, drained and chopped
• 1/3 cup seedless raspberry jam
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons rum or brandy
• 2 cups heavy cream
• 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar

Directions

1. Make cake in 2 9 inch pans following directions, but substitute 3 large eggs for the egg whites.

2. Mix sugar, chocolate and cherries into the ricotta cheese with spatula and fold in the rum

3. Make syrup with 1/4 cup granulated sugar dissolved in 1/4 cup boiling water and 2 tablespoons rum extract

4. Slice the cooled layers in half

5. For the first 3 layers, moisten with syrup then spread evenly with 1/3 jam, 1/3 ricotta mixture.

6. Frost final layer and sides with the topping

7. (2 cups heavy cream whipped with 2 cups confectioner’s sugar

8. Refrigerate

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