grandma's cherry bread

Name: Grandma's Cherry Bread
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 20
Cuisine: Eastern European
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup(s) unsalted butter,room temperature; 8 ounce(s) pkg. cream cheese, room temperature; 2 cup(s) granulated sugar; 10 large egg yolks; 1/4 cup(s) maraschino cherry juice; 10 large egg whites,stiff-beaten; 4 1/2 cup(s) cake flour; 1 teaspoon(s) baking powder; 2 teaspoon(s) almond extract; 2 jar(s) 10 oz. each maraschino cherries, drained and chopped; 2 cup(s) chopped walnuts

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Pat Duran

Las Vegas, NV

Updated on Mar 13, 2012

This sweet bread ; more like a cake recipe will dazzle your family with the wonderful flavor of nuts and cherries. My neighbor gave me this recipe- she said it was her grandmother's recipe- and she has had it a long time- but she no longer bakes as her health is poor. She asked me if I wanted her grandma's recipe file and - I could hardly contain myself and grab it and run.lol- This is one of the recipes in that loose leaf recipe book- some pages are hard to read and others are in Russian so I have to have her translate for me. Hope you like this one- we love it - I gave one to Galena too!

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prep time 25 Min

cook time 1 Hr 45 Min

method Bake

yield 20 pieces

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups unsalted butter,room temperature
8 ounces pkg. cream cheese, room temperature
2 cups granulated sugar
10 large egg yolks
1/4 cup maraschino cherry juice
10 large egg whites,stiff-beaten
4 1/2 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons almond extract
2 jars 10 oz. each maraschino cherries, drained and chopped
2 cups chopped walnuts

How To Make grandma's cherry bread

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325^. Spray two 4 1/2x 8 1/2 inch loaf pans with wax paper on the bottom or one 10-inch tube pan(angel food cake pan)- bundt doesn't work as well. Make sure to spray well.

Step 2

Cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add sugar and beat well; add egg yolks, extract and cherry juice; beat throughly. Fold in stiff egg whites, then the sifted dry ingredients, folding until well blended.
Step 3

Add 1/3 of the batter to the tube pan and then sprinkle with half of the cherries and 1/2 the nuts. Cover with another 1/3 of the batter and then sprinkle with the remaining cherries and nuts. Cover with remaining batter. Bake in oven for 90 minutes in tube pan; bake 75 minutes if using the 2 loaf pans. Test cake with cake tester in center, comes out clean done.
Step 4

Cool cake 5 minutes and then dump out on cooling rack. To store in freezer;when cooled, wrap in plastic and then in freezer bag or foil. This freezes well.
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