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cherry pound cake

(1 rating)
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Recipe by
Sophia 3000
@sophiadt3000
Merrillville, IN

This is a fruit cake that will not be shoved in the back of the cabinet. Our family use to go to the mall and visit a candy store that sold differnt varieties of candies and dried fruit. My aunt brought what seemed to be tons of dried cherries to put in this cake, and to eat.

(1 rating)
prep time 15 Min
cook time 40 Min

Ingredients For cherry pound cake

  • ***streusel topping***
  • 1 c
    all purpose flour
  • 2/3 c
    brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 1/2 c
    granulated sugar
  • 1 stick
    butter, melted
  • 1 tsp
    cinnamon
  • ****cake****
  • 2 1/2 c
    all purpose flour
  • 3
    eggs
  • 1 c
    sugar
  • 1/4 c
    honey
  • 1/4 c
    molasses
  • 1 c
    vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp
    salt
  • 1 tsp
    ginger (powder)
  • 1 tsp
    cinnamon
  • 1 tsp
    cloves
  • 1 Tbsp
    vanilla
  • 1 c
    buttermilk
  • 1 c
    dried cherries
  • 1 c
    frozen cherries (thawed & drained)

How To Make cherry pound cake

  • 1
    Pre heat your oven to 350 degrees. Next spray a bundt pan and set aside.
  • 2
    Make your streusel topping by combinding the flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar, and cinnamon. Stir in the melted butter making sure that everything is coated, mixture will be lumpy. Set aside.
  • 3
    In a seperate, large bowl blend together the oil, eggs, sugar, honey,molasses, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon,cloves,and vanilla. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the wet ingredients, mix until all the flour is incorporated. Next add half the buttermilk, more flour, the rest of the buttermilk, and finish whith the remainding flour. Stir in all the cheries by hand, gently.
  • 4
    Pour the mixture into the bundt pan and sprinkle the streusel on top. Bake at 350 anywhere between 30-40 minutes depending on your oven. Turn the cake onto a wire rack to finish cooling, dust with powdered sugar.
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