astray recipes: Cherry dream cake

Categories: Cakes
Yield: 12 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
2 cups	Cake flour, sifted
1¼ cup	Sugar
2½ teaspoon	Baking powder
1 teaspoon	Salt
½ cup	Shortening
¾ cup	Milk
½ teaspoon	Lemon extract
1½ teaspoon	Almond extract
3	Egg white; unbeaten
18	Cherry, maraschino*
2	Egg white; unbeaten
1½ cup	Sugar
5 tablespoons	;Water, cold
½ teaspoon	Salt
1 teaspoon	Vanilla
2	Marshmallow; cut in eighths
1 teaspoon	Corn syrup, light
	10 Luscious New Cakes, n.d.
	from Cakes Men Like
	by Benjamin Darling

CHERRY FLUFF FROSTING

*Drain cherries well, reserving juice; chop very finely.

Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt into the mixing bowl.

Drop in the shortening, add the milk, lemon extract, and almond extract and beat 200 strokes. Scrape the bowl and spoon often while mixing. Add egg whites and beat 250 strokes. Add the chopped cherries and blend. Bake in two greased and floured deep 8" layer cake pans at 350 F. for 25 to 35 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. When cool, frost with Cherry Fluff Frosting.

Cherry Fluff Frosting: Put egg whites, sugar, reserved cherry juice, corn syrup, and salt in the top of a double boiler and mix thoroughly. Place over rapidly boiling water and beat constantly with a rotary egg beater until the mixture will hold a peak (about seven minutes). Remove from hot water, add vanilla and almond extracts and marshmallows and beat until cool and thick enough to spread. Double the recipe to make enough frosting for the sides, too.

cherry dream cake