Ingredients
- You Will Need:
- For The Cake:
- 2 9 inch pans, greased and floured
- 1/3 cup soft butter
- 1/3 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3 cups cake flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup cherry juice from jar
- 3/4 cup milk
- 20 maraschino cherries cut in 8ths
- 5 egg whites, stiffly beaten
- Cream together the butter, shortening and sugar. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Sift dry ingredients together, and combine milk and cherry juice. Add alternately in three additions to the creamed mixture. Fold in the cherries. Fold in the egg whites. Transfer to pans and bake 30-35 minutes or until they test done. Cool 15 minutes in
- For the Frosting:
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup cherry juice from maraschino cherries
- 1/3 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 2 egg whites, beaten stiff
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- In a small saucepan, heat the sugar, juice and cream of tartar with the lid on over medium heat for three minutes. Remove lid, and cook until it reaches 242 degrees F.
- Beat egg whites until they hold stiff peaks.
- Beat the syrup very slowly into the egg whites beating constantly. Add vanilla extract and keep beating until fluffy and makes a spreading consistency. Frost cake generously >