Sherry Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Drain and chop cherries, reserving juice; set aside., In a large bowl, cream the butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine milk and 1/4 cup reserved cherry juice; add to creamed mixture alternately with flour, beating well after each addition. Fold in 1/2 cup cherries., Transfer to a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan. Bake at 325° for 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely., In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add the confectioners' sugar, vanilla and enough reserved cherry juice to achieve spreading consistency. Fold in coconut and remaining chopped cherries. Frost cake. Sprinkle with walnuts and additional coconut if desired.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour an 8 inch tube pan. Mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter, cream cheese, and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla and almond extract. Beat in the flour mixture, mixing just until incorporated. Dredge cherries in 1/4 cup flour, then fold into batter. Spread into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 80 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

Steps:

• Mix the flour, baking powder and baking soda together.
• Beat the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat for 3 minutes. Beat in the dry ingredients. Add the sour cream and beat for 3 minutes. Fold in the cherries.
• Pour into a greased 9-inch tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 60 to 70 minutes or until the cake tests done. Check after 30 minutes of baking and cover with foil if browning too quickly. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Remove and cool completely.

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• Add boiling water to gelatin mix in large bowl; stir 2 min. until completely dissolved. Stir in cold water, then pie filling. Refrigerate 1-1/4 hours or until slightly thickened.
• Cover bottom of 13x9-inch dish with cake slices; cover with gelatin mixture.
• Refrigerate 2 hours or until firm. Spread with COOL WHIP before serving.

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• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter and flour an angel-food-cake pan. Sift together the flour and baking powder. Using a mixer at medium speed, beat the butter until creamy and slowly add the brown sugar. Mix in the egg yolks, milk, vanilla, orange extract and 2 tablespoons of the sherry. Blend in the flour mixture.
• In another bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff but not dry. Fold them into the batter. Fold in the walnuts, raisins, currants and orange peel. Scrape into the prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes, then unmold and cool on a rack before glazing.
• In a small bowl, whisk the confectioners' sugar and remaining 11/2 tablespoons sherry until smooth. Drizzle the glaze over the top.

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• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Oil the sides and bottom of a 10 inch Bundt cake pan. In a small bowl, mix cinnamon, sugar and cocoa. "Flour" the sides and bottom of the pan with the mixture, tap out the excess back into the cinnamon mixture.
• In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, eggs, oil, sherry, nutmeg and pudding mix. Beat until well blended. Pour half of the batter into the Bundt pan, sprinkle with half of the cinnamon sugar, cover with the remaining batter and finally, top with remaining cinnamon mixture.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

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• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• In a medium bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the flour in small amounts at a time, beating well after each addition. Bake in a well-greased 10- to 12-inch tube or bundt pan for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Do not open oven door until cake has been baking for an hour. Cool and turn out onto the serving plate. Serve sliced with Sherry Sauce spooned over (see recipe below).
• Beat eggs and sugar together in the top of a double boiler. Cook over boiling water until thick; stir in butter, sherry, and salt. Serve warm.
• Makes 3/4 cup

Steps:

• Mix at medium speed the cake mix, pudding, oil, sherry and eggs.
• In a small bowl mix the cinnamon and brown sugar.
• Grease a bundt pan.
• Pour a little batter in the bottom of the pan, then sprinkle a little of the sugar on top of that.
• Continue to layer having the batter as the last layer.
• Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes.
• Once cooled sprinkle a little more cinnamon and sugar on top.

Steps:

• Prepare a bundt pan by oiling the sides. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Blend all ingredients until well moistened. Pour batter into pan.
• Bake for 40 minutes, or until done. Remove cake from oven, and cool.
• Dust top with confectioners' sugar.

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• Combine flour and salt.
• Stir well to blend.
• Mix 1/2 cup flour mixture with cherries.
• Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, I use a high speed on my mixer till it is REAL fluffy.
• Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add remaining flour gradually.
• Stir in extract and floured cherries, mixing until well blended.
• Spread in greased loaf pan.
• (I use a veg. spray).
• Bake at 300DegreesF for 90-100 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Don't be concerned if cake cracks on top, it is supposed to.

Steps:

• Grease and flour an 8 inch tube pan. Mix 1/4 cup of flour with the cherries.
• Cream together the butter, sugar, cream cheese and vanilla. Add eggs, beating in one at a time. Beat well.
• Sift together flour and baking powder. Gradually add to creamed mixture. Fold in cherries.
• Sprinkle nuts in prepared pan. Spread batter over. Bake in a preheated 325*F oven for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Let Cool 5 minutes before removing from pan. I have also baked this in two loaf pans with great success! (A shorter baking time is needed of course in that case!).

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• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream butter with sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
• Separate the eggs and beat in the whites. Sift flour in the baking powder and gradually fold into the butter-sugar mixture with the salt. Mix well and add the ground almonds, candied peel and cherries. Add the currants with the soaking sherry. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold in.
• Grease an eight-inch round cake tin and line it with wax paper. Pour in the batter and decorate top with whole almonds. Bake one hour, then turn heat down to 300 degrees. Bake an hour more. The cake is done when a tester inserted in center comes out slightly sticky but pretty much clean.
• When cooked and while still hot, pour the remaining sherry over cake by spoonfuls and leave until cake is cold. Cover with sherry-soaked cheesecloth, wrap in aluminum foil and store in a tin or sealed plastic container.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 10-in. fluted tube pan., In a large bowl, whisk the first six ingredients; add eggs, oil and sherry. Beat on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on medium 2 minutes. Transfer to prepared pan. Bake 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean., Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar.

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients except the powdered sugar on medium speed for 5 minutes.
• optional Sometimes I add walnuts to the mix as well as put some in the bottom of the bundt pan before pouring in the cake mixture it gives it a nice crunchy topping.
• Pour into well greased bundt pan and bake at 350°F for 45 minutes.
• Let cool for 15-20 mins before removing from bundt pan.
• While cooling I sometimes mix some of the (1/4 cup) powdered sugar and some extra sherry (1/2 cup) poke holes in cake with a chopstick and drizzle while still in pan.
• Turn out pan onto cooling rack and dust lightly with powdered sugar.