Cherry nut cake - my favorite!
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2¼ | cup | Flour |
| 1⅓ | cup | Sugar |
| 3 | teaspoons | Baking powder |
| 1 | teaspoon | Salt |
| ½ | cup | Vegetable shortening |
| ¼ | cup | Maraschino cherry juice |
| 16 | Maraschino cherries | |
| ½ | cup | Milk |
| 4 | larges | Egg whites |
| ½ | cup | Chopped walnuts |
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add the vegetable shortening, cherry juice, cherries and the milk and beat for 2 minutes. Add ½-⅔ cups(4 large) unbeaten egg whites and beat 2 minutes more. Then fold in1/2 c. of chopped nuts. Pour into two greased and floured round cake layer pans and bake for 30-35 minutes. Frost with pink Seven Minute Frosting (it's recipe is in this file).
NOTES : MUST use 7-Minute Frosting on this cake and color it pink.
Recipe by: One of my two favorite birthday cakes! 350'F Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by Ed Griffin <egriff@...> on Mar 29, 1998