Decadent Chocolate-Cherry Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (14.5 oz.) pkg. angel food cake mix
2 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
1 (1.3 oz.) pkg. sugar-free instant chocolate flavored pudding mix
2 c. skim milk
1 1/2 c. pitted dark sweet cherries
confectioners sugar
1/4 c. nondairy whipped topping

Preparation

Prepare cake according to package directions, adding cocoa powder to dry ingredients.
While cake cools, prepare pudding mix according to package directions, using skim milk; cool.
Set aside 12 cherries for decoration.
Coarsely chop remaining cherries. Stir chopped cherries into cooled pudding; set aside.
Cut 1-inch slice off top of cooled cake; set slice aside.
Cut through 1 1/2 inches wide and 1 inch deep around top of cake; pull out and discard cake in trough.
Spoon pudding into trough; replace top of cake.
Sprinkle top of cake with confectioners sugar.