Rich and decadent, this recipe for Chocolate Chip Cherry Amish Friendship Bread is a chocolate lover’s dream come true. Dust this bread with powdered sugar for a fun and festive look!
Kitchen Friend Tina Levesque took a sweeter approach to this recipe: “Substitute 1 jar of maraschino cherries for the 1 cup of dried cherries.”
Chocolate Chip Cherry Amish Friendship Bread
Rich and decadent, this recipe for Chocolate Chip Cherry Amish Friendship Bread is a chocolate lover’s dream come true. Dust this bread with powdered sugar for a fun and festive look!
Ingredients
- 1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup oil
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups flour
- 1-2 boxes chocolate instant pudding
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 cup dried cherries
- ½ teaspoon cocoa powder to dust
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325° F (165° C).
- In a large mixing bowl, add ingredients as listed.
- Grease two large loaf pans.
- Dust the greased pans with a mixture of ½ cup sugar and ½ teaspoon cocoa powder.
- Pour the batter evenly into loaf or cake pans and sprinkle the remaining sugar-cocoa mixture on the top.
- Bake for one hour or until the bread loosens evenly from the sides and a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.
- ENJOY!
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What if I don’t have cocoa powder… what can I use instead?
Hi Katie! You can skip the cocoa and dust the pans with sugar!
This sounds delicious – I will try this for our next anniversary!
This will make a perfect dessert for Valentines day…..with cherries to boot.
This is definitely my next creation, and just in time for Valentine’s Day! I like the idea of substituting a jar of maraschino cherries for the dried cherries. I look forward to serving this to my sweetheart!