Ingredient:

• 1 ½ cups whole wheat pastry flour
• ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 scant cup raw (turbinado) sugar
• ½ cup melted coconut oil or quality vegetable oil
• 1 cup coffee (I mixed one packet of Starbucks VIA instant coffee with cold filtered water, you could also just use 1 cup of cold water)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon almond extract
• 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
• 1 ¼ pound dark cherries (roughly enough cherries to cover the bottom of your cake pan)