Philly Gift Cake

Philly Gift Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 8 oz cream cheese
• 1 cup butter
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 4 eggs
• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 cup maraschino cherries

Directions:

1. Combine first 4 ingredients.  
2. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each.
3. Add flour and baking powder
4. With 1/4 cup of the flour toss with the cherries.  Fold into batter.
5. Pour into greased pan and bake in a 325 degree oven.

Baking times
10" tube pan - 1 hour 20 minutes
5 mini loaf pans, 5 3/4 x 3 1/4  - 45 to 50 minutes.

I like to use the mini loaf pans and give the cakes away as gifts.

Instead of maraschino cherries, I use red and green candied cherries.
I baked the mini loaf pans 43 minutes.

Icing for Cakes - Combine 1 1/2 cup icing sugar and 2 tablespoons milk.  Drizzle over cake and garnish with cherries.

I prefer to use Royal Icing because it hardens.

This is an old recipe and back then when coffee and shortening came in metal cans you could also bake this cake in them.

(3) l lb coffee cans - 1 hour
(4) l lb shortening cans - 1 hour