Mary's Cherry Cake

This is a great spicy cake to use up your cherries

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 1  cup sugar
• 1⁄2 cup shortening
• 2  egg yolks
• 1  cup  pitted bing cherry (or another sweet cherry)
• 2  cups flour
• 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon allspice
• 1⁄4-1⁄2 teaspoon  grd clove
• 1⁄2 cup cherry juice
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 cup buttermilk or 1⁄2 cup  sour milk

Directions

1. Cream together the sugar and shortening. Mix in the egg yolks one at a time. Add cherries. Add dry ingredients and spices (except for baking soda).
2. Dissolve baking soda in cherry juice. Add cherry juice and buttermilk. Pour into 2 greased and floured 8in cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees bake 30-35 minute Let cool, place on cake platter and frost between the layers with either 7 min frosting or cream cheese frosting and on the sides.