HOLIDAY CAKE

Submitted by Mary Bavolek

PREHEAT OVEN             325 degrees

INGREDIENTS:

• 8 oz. cream cheese softened
• 1 cup butter
• 1 ½ cup sugar
• 1 ½ teas. Vanilla
• 4 eggs
• 2 ¼ cake flour
• 1 ½ teas. baking powder    SIFT together, reserving
•  ¼ cup  for mixing w/cherries

• 8 oz. cherries chopped with juice
• ½ cup chopped pecans

Cream Cheese (softened), butter (softened) sugar, vanilla mixed together.

Then add eggs one at a time.  Add this mixture to sifted flour (reserving ¼ cup flour)

Add reserved ¼ cup flour with cherries and pecans.  Add this mixture to greased and floured bundt pan.

Add flour mixture batter on top of cherries.

Bake bundt cake for 1 hr. 20 min, check to make sure done