Cherry Cake

DotM's Note:

This is the cake that most of my family want for their birthday cake. This is a favorite cake of Newfounlanders.

• Total Time: 16 mins
• Prep Time: 1 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 cake

• 1 ½ cups butter
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 16 ounces cherries , dried, glazed (baking cherries)
• 1 teaspoon almonds
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon lemon flavoring
• 1 cup warm milk
• 1 teaspoon salt

Directions:

1. Mix dry ingredients together and set aside.
2. Cream together butter and sugar, add eggs, vanilla, almond and lemon flavoring and continue to beat.
3. Add dry ingredients and warm milk a little at a time till well mixed. Add the glazed cherries.
4. Bake at 325 for 1 hour or until done.

Reviews

[SSellars]

What a delicious recipe! I could not find the dried glazed cherries at my local Kroger, so substituted two cups of maraschino cherries (without the liquid). It turned the batter a lovely pink. I frosted it with Martha Stewart's Grand Marnier Italian Buttercream Frosting and it was the best cake I have ever made. Highly recommend!

[lucy k.]

This is more like muffins than cake. Makes a very thick batter and a really heavy cake. I assume that the "almonds" ingredient is meant to be almond extract, but even with all three extracts, it's pretty bland.

[Chef #835392]

Delicious and easy to make!! I used some frozen sour pie cherries that I had in the freezer and I frosted it with a buttercream icing. It is now a household favorite!