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Simply The Best Cherry Cake with Pilsbury Softasilk Flour

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June 21, 2010
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Simply The Best Cherry Cake with Pilsbury Softasilk Flour
  • Serves 6
Author Notes

I love cherries and I was looking for an easy and wonderful cake recipe using cherries and I made it. It's like a regular cake, with regular ingredients but I use cake flour and fresh cherries, and my imagination. —normiux

What You'll Need
Ingredients
  • 2 cups fresh cherries, pitted and broken in half
  • 1 1/2 cups Pillsbury Softasilk flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter (melted and cooled)
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Butter an 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" loaf pan with unsalted butter. Set aside.
  2. Take half of the cherries (to be placed on cake durin baking).
  3. In a bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. In a separate bowl with electric mixer, beat the eggs and sugar until thick. Add the melted butter, milk, vanilla and beat until moistened. Pour half of the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Add cherries and put the remaining part of the batter.
  4. Bake for 15 minutes then remove from oven and arrange the remaning cherries on top of cake inserting the remaining cherries into the cake batter. Return the cake to the oven and bake for a further 30 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted into the cake portion comes out clean.
  5. I love to serve warm or at room temprature with a little of powder sugar sprinkled over it or a little cream cheese frosting on top.
  6. CREAM CHEESE FROSTING: 1PKG (8oz) soft cream cheese, 1 cup white o bown sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla (Stirr gradually sugar into cream cheese and mix in the vanilla. Seal and cool in refrigerator until the frosting sets - about 20 mins).
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3 Reviews

Ljubica J.
Ljubica J. June 15, 2021
This looks great and sounds easy as well! I'll review once I've tried it. One tip I have based on the photo is if you lightly coat the cherries in flour, they won't sink to the bottom. That's at least the way I heard it. Thanks for the recipe!
 
Elviaball
Elviaball August 5, 2020
Its delicious. The only thing I would do differently is bake at 350 degrees instead. It was too overly done on the bottom and edges. But good otherwise. The cherries were perfect
 
Elviaball
Elviaball August 5, 2020
Its delicious. The only thing I would do differently is bake at 350 degrees instead. It was too overly done on the bottom and edges. But good otherwise.