Sweetheart Cake
"I found this in the Valentine's Day edition of my local paper. It is very good and so pretty. Baked in heart-shaped pans this is the perfect dessert for your sweetheart! (Prep time is approximate)"
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
1 cake
ingredients
- 2 1⁄2 cups sifted flour
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 3 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup shortening
- 3⁄4 cup milk
- 1⁄4 cup maraschino cherry juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons almond extract
- 4 egg whites, unbeaten
- 18 maraschino cherries, well drained and finely chopped
- 1⁄2 cup finely chopped walnuts
directions
- Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into mixing bowl.
- Drop in shortening.
- Combine milk and cherry juice and add in a stream to dry mixture.
- Add extracts; beat two minutes.
- Add egg whites; beat two minutes.
- Add cherries and nuts; beat 2 minutes.
- Bake in two greased and floured 9-inch pans at 375 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
- Frost when cool using a plain butter frosting, replacing liquid with cherry juice.
- Decorate with cup up cherries.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Denise in da Kitchen
Willington, Connecticut
I LOVE to cook and eat and read cookbooks. My kitchen really does overfloweth with them and of course this has quickly become my favorite cooking site! I live with my husband in a small town in eastern Connecticut. We are both retired. My children are all grown and have families of their own now. Our 3 grandchildren and 1 great-granddaughter all live in Florida and it goes without saying that we miss them very much, so when my husband retired last year we celebrated by buying a small RV! We so enjoyed driving it to Florida to spend the holidays with the little ones. Although COVID has prevented us from repeating the trip this year, I am enjoying learning new recipes to make in our RV for next year. I think the Instant Pot and the Crock Pot will be my new best friends while traveling!
