Iced Cherry Cake Food

ICED CHERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Set the oven to 180°C/ 160°C fan/ gas mark 4/ 350°F
• Grease a 2lb loaf tin with butter or use a paper liner
• Halve the cherries, then wash in warm water and dry. This will remove the syrup and stop them from sinking too much. Quarter them if you want a better distribution. If you're short of time, don't bother to wash. The cherries may sink but the cake will still taste wonderful.
• Put all the ingredients except the cherries into a large bowl and mix well with a mixer or in a food processor.(Flour, baking powder, salt, butter, sugar, eggs, ground almonds, milk, vanilla extract)
• Add the cherries and fold in with a large spoon until they are evenly distributed through the mixture.
• Put the cake mixture into the prepared tin
• Cook for 60-75 minutes until well risen and golden and a skewer comes out clean. Test after an hour.If the top starts to brown before the centre is cooked, cover with baking parchment or foil
• Take the cake out of the oven and leave in the tin for 15 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.
• Sieve the icing sugar and add enough hot water to make a smooth icing that will spread but not run
• Spread the icing over the top of the cake
• Cut the cherries in half and arrange on top.

MARY'S CHERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Grease a 23cm/9in bundt tin or savarin mould with butter.
• Cut the cherries into quarters. Set aside five of the quartered cherries for the decoration later. Put the rest of the quartered cherries in a sieve and rinse under running water. Drain well then dry thoroughly on kitchen paper and toss in two tablespoons of the flour.
• Measure all the remaining ingredients into a large bowl and beat well for two minutes to mix thoroughly. Lightly fold in the cherries. Turn into the prepared tin.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 35-40 minutes until well risen, golden-brown and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes then turn out and cool on a wire rack.
• For the icing, mix the icing sugar together with the lemon juice to a thick paste. Drizzle over the cooled cake using the back of a spoon, sprinkle over the toasted almonds and reserved cherries.

EASY CHERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease or Spray bottom of two 8 or 9 inch cake pans.
• *Drain juice from cherries and add water to make 1 1/4 cups.
• Chop cherries in half.
• Beat cake mix, cherry juice/water, oil, egg whites and cherries in large bowl on low speed 30 seconds; beat on medium speed 1 1/2 minutes
• Pour into pans.
• Bake 30- 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool 10 minutes in pans.
• Run knife around sides of pans before removing.
• Cool completely before frosting.
• A White Mountain icing is very good.

CANDIED CHERRY BUNDT CAKE WITH ICED GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Grease an 8 inch bundt pan.
• Dust with flour, then shake any excess.
• Cut cherries in half and toss them in flour.
• In a mixer, cream butter and sugar until creamy and light.
• Add eggs, then vanilla.
• Add dry ingredients that have been previously sifted and fold by hand alternating with milk.
• Stir in cherries.
• Pour into tin and smooth surface.
• Bake for 35 min or until toothpick comes out clean of the center.
• Let cool in pan for 10 min before unmolding.
• For the glaze, stir all ingredients over a hot water bath or double boiler until smooth.
• Pour over cake.

CHERRY FROSTING

Steps:

• Whip 3 cups powdered sugar and butter together.
• Stir in vanilla, cherry juice (or milk), and cherries.
• Beat until smooth and of spreading consistency.
• Add more sugar or liquid as necessary.

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.