Cherry Pound Cake

By Cindy_Wicker

Ingredients

• Cherry Frosting:
• 1 cup Crisco
• 3 cups sugar
• 3 3/4 cup plain flour
• 6 large eggs
• 1 stick butter
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/2 (10 oz) jar maraschino cherries, chopped fine
• 3 oz cream cheese
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 stick butter, melted
• 1/2 jar chopped cherries
• 1/2 cp coconut
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts
• 1 tsp almond flavoring

Details

Servings 16

Preparation

Step 1

Cream Crisco, butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Add flour alternately with milk. Fold in chopped cherries. Pour in tube pan and place in cold oven. Bake for 2 hours at 275 degrees. Cool on rack about 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely. Mix together the ingredients for Cherry frosting and frost cold cake.