I'm making a sheet rainbow cake for a customer. They wanted cherry flavor. Never did cherry before but I figured cherry extract would make Kakeladi's Wasc cake taste cherry. I used the whole bottle 2 1/2 Tbsp of imitation extract for a 11x15 cake. Doesn't taste cherry at all! the other 1/2 I used cherry juice from the marichino cherry jar but I used 4 Tbsp. doesn't taste any different. I really don't want to have to remake these cakes as it was time consuming mixing all that batter in different colors. Cakes are due Friday so I do have some time. I have the cakes in the freezer now. Is there a way to add more cherry flavor like possibly a simple syrup? any suggestions? I'm thinking I should have used cherry chip cake for my base but it's too late for that now. I'd appreciate any helpful suggestions!!!!
Thanks,
Jane

lorann oils. you can find the at rite-aid (as I just found out) and some cake stores, like hobby lobby or michaels.

There is a recipe where you use a can of cherry pie filling in a box of cake mix. I've done it with chocolate and it's fabulous.
The recipe is from the cake mix doctor:
1 box of devil foods cake mix
1 can (21 ounce) can of cherry pie filling
2 large eggs
1 tsp almond extract.


I don't see whe you can't do this with a white cake. I would switch the almond to vanilla then it would be like a cherry vanilla ice cream...ooh I bet it would be good with a french vanilla cake mix.

Please post your thoughts if you try it.