Best Cherry Cream Crown Recipes

CHERRY CREAM CHEESE CAKE

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This luscious pound cake has a nutty top crust, and is moist and flavorful. Makes a great gift. You can use halved maraschino cherries instead, if you prefer.

Provided by Carol

Categories Desserts Cakes Pound Cake Recipes

Yield 14

Number Of Ingredients 11

Ingredients

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 cup butter, softened
1 ½ cups white sugar
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
4 eggs
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
⅛ teaspoon salt
1 cup candied cherries, halved
¼ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup chopped pecans

Steps:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
Cream the cream cheese, butter or margarine, sugar, and vanilla together until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time. Sift together 2 1/4 cup flour, baking powder, and salt; fold into cream cheese mixture. Dredge cherries in 1/4 cup flour, and fold into batter.
Sprinkle pecans over the bottom of an ungreased 10 inch angel food tube pan. Bottom should be completely covered. Add a few more pecans if necessary. Spoon batter into pan on top of nuts.
Bake for about 75 minutes, or until an inserted wooden pick comes out clean. Allow cake to cool in pan. Run knife around outside edge and center tube. Ease cake out of pan, and onto plate.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 417.7 calories, Carbohydrate 47.3 g, Cholesterol 105.6 mg, Fat 23.4 g, Fiber 1 g, Protein 5.8 g, SaturatedFat 12.6 g, Sodium 241.7 mg, Sugar 27.8 g

CHERRY CROWNS

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I originally found this recipe on-line a number of years ago and never made them until last year. I was looking through some cookbooks a few weeks ago and found the very same recipe in the Southern Living Christmas Cookbook. These are really delicious and look so pretty on my cookie trays.

Provided by Thea Pappalardo

Categories Cookies

Time 15m

Number Of Ingredients 8

Ingredients

1 c butter, softened
3 oz cream cheese, softened
1 c sugar
1 egg, separated
1 tsp almond extract
2 1/2 c ap flour
1 c blanched almonds, finely chopped
30 red candied cherries, cut in half

Steps:

1. Cream butter and cream cheese at medium speed. Gradually add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add egg yolk and almond extract. Mix well. Gradually stir in flour. Cover and refrigerate for at least one hour.
2. Shape dough into one inch balls; dip top of ball in beaten egg white and then into the almonds. Place about 2 inches apart on a parchment lined cookie sheet. (Grease sheet if you do not have parchment.) Press a half cherry into the top of each ball.
3. Bake at 350° for 15 minutes. Cool on wire racks.