GRANDMA'S CHERRY BREAD

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Provided by Pat Duran

Time 2h10m

Number Of Ingredients 11

1 1/2 c unsalted butter,room temperature
8 oz pkg. cream cheese, room temperature
2 c granulated sugar
10 large egg yolks
1/4 c maraschino cherry juice
10 large egg whites,stiff-beaten
4 1/2 c cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp almond extract
2 jar(s) 10 oz. each maraschino cherries, drained and chopped
2 c chopped walnuts

Steps:

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.
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.
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.
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.