Cherry Holiday Cakes Recipe
Ingredients
Red candied cherries - 2 lb.
Crystallized ginger - 6 oz.
Walnuts - 3 cups, chopped
Orange juice - 2/3 cup
Flour - 3 cups
Baking powder - 1 tbsp.
Salt - 1 tsp.
Ground coriander - 1 1/2 tsp.
Butter or margarine - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Eggs - 6, separated
Directions
GETTING READY
1. Cut cherries and ginger fine, using kitchen shears.
MAKING
2. In a bowl combine cherries, ginger and walnuts and stir in orange juice.
3. Mix flour, baking powder, salt and coriander.
4. Cream butter and 1/2 cup sugar until light and beat in egg yolks, one at a time.
5. Stir in cherry mixture and flour mixture.
6. Beat egg whites until stiff, beating in remaining sugar.
7. Fold egg whites into cake batter.
8. Grease small loaf pans or fluted molds and spoon batter into them.
9. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour until cakes test done.
10. Cool cakes in pans for 10 minutes and turn onto racks.
SERVING
11. Frost with a confectioners' sugar icing if desired and serve.
1. Cut cherries and ginger fine, using kitchen shears.
MAKING
2. In a bowl combine cherries, ginger and walnuts and stir in orange juice.
3. Mix flour, baking powder, salt and coriander.
4. Cream butter and 1/2 cup sugar until light and beat in egg yolks, one at a time.
5. Stir in cherry mixture and flour mixture.
6. Beat egg whites until stiff, beating in remaining sugar.
7. Fold egg whites into cake batter.
8. Grease small loaf pans or fluted molds and spoon batter into them.
9. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour until cakes test done.
10. Cool cakes in pans for 10 minutes and turn onto racks.
SERVING
11. Frost with a confectioners' sugar icing if desired and serve.