Cherry Frosting Food

THE BEST MARASCHINO CHERRY BUTTERCREAM FROSTING

Steps:

• In a mixer, cream together the butter and powdered sugar on low speed until the powdered sugar and butter is completely combined.
• Continue to beat on medium speed until it is creamy.
• Add the 1/4 cup Maraschino Cherry juice.
• This is a "wet" frosting, if it too thin, add 1/2 cup additional powdered sugar. Keep adding powdered sugar 1/2 cup at a time until you get until you have the frosting at the desired consistency.
• Finally gently fold in the 6-8 diced Maraschino Cherries with a spoon.

CHERRY BUTTERCREAM FROSTING

Steps:

• Beat butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Beat in confectioners' sugar gradually until light and fluffy. Beat in cream, 1 tablespoon at a time, until frosting reaches spreading/piping consistency. Beat in cherry preserves and vanilla extract.

CHERRY ANGEL FOOD CAKE & CHERRY FLUFF FROSTING

Steps:

• Place a rack in center of oven.
• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Set aside an ungreased tube pan.
• Dump angel food cake mix in large mixing bowl.
• Drain juice from maraschino cherries, reserving 1 tbsp for frosting.
• To remaining maraschino cherry juice, add enough water to equal 1 1/4 cups liquid.
• Pour this liquid along with almond and vanilla extract into dry cake mix in bowl.
• Beat with electric mixer on low for 1 minute and stop and scrape down sides of bowl with rubber spatula. Increase speed to medium and beat for 1 minute more.Scraping down sides of bowl if necessary. Batter should look well blended.
• Pour batter into pan.smoothing top with rubber spatula.
• Place pan in oven on rack and bake till deeply browned and top springs back when lightly touched with fingers, about 38-42 minutes.
• Remove from oven and immediately invert onto a glass bottle neck upside down to cool for 1 hour.
• Remove from bottle and run a long knife around sides of cake.
• Invert onto cooling rack and then invert onto serving platter.
• Prepare cherry fluff frosting.
• Place reserved cherry juice, sugar, and egg white into a medium size saucepan.
• Cook over low heat, beating continuously with electic mixer on high speed, till soft peaks forms (2-3 minutes).
• Remove pan from heat and add marshmallow cream and beat with electric mixer on high till stiff peaks form.about 2 minutes. Fold in chopped cherries, is using.
• Spread frosting over top and halfway down sides of angel food cake and serve immediately.
• We usually don't have any leftovers, so I am not sure how well this stores.

FLUFFY CHERRY FROSTING

Steps:

• In a heavy saucepan, combine the sugar, egg whites, water, cherry juice and cream of tartar. With a portable mixer, beat on low speed for 1 minute. Continue beating on low over low heat until frosting reaches 160° on a candy thermometer, about 10 minutes. , Pour into the bowl of a heavy-duty stand mixer; add extracts. Beat on high until stiff peaks form, about 7 minutes.