Holiday Gift Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 cup margarine or 1 cup butter
• 8 ounces package cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 4 eggs
• 2 1/4 cups sifted flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 10 ounces jar maraschino cherries, drained and quartered

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 2 thoroughly blend cream cheese, margarine, sugar and vanilla. add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
• 3 gradually add 2 cups of the sifted flour and baking powder to cream cheese mixture.
• 4 add the remaining flour, cherries and nuts.
• 5 pour batter into a greased and floured bundt pan. put in preheated oven for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until tested done.
• 6 cool 5 minutes; remove from pan. ice as desired.