Ingredients
Instructions
- Place a rack in center of oven.
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- Set aside an ungreased tube pan.
- Dump angel food cake mix in large mixing bowl.
- Drain juice from maraschino cherries, reserving 1 tbsp for frosting.
- To remaining maraschino cherry juice, add enough water to equal 1 1/4 cups liquid.
- Pour this liquid along with almond and vanilla extract into dry cake mix in bowl.
- Beat with electric mixer on low for 1 minute and stop and scrape down sides of bowl with rubber spatula. Increase speed to medium and beat for 1 minute more.Scraping down sides of bowl if necessary. Batter should look well blended.
- Pour batter into pan.smoothing top with rubber spatula.
- Place pan in oven on rack and bake till deeply browned and top springs back when lightly touched with fingers, about 38-42 minutes.
- Remove from oven and immediately invert onto a glass bottle neck upside down to cool for 1 hour.
- Remove from bottle and run a long knife around sides of cake.
- Invert onto cooling rack and then invert onto serving platter.
- Prepare cherry fluff frosting.
- Place reserved cherry juice, sugar, and egg white into a medium size saucepan.
- Cook over low heat, beating continuously with electic mixer on high speed, till soft peaks forms (2-3 minutes).
- Remove pan from heat and add marshmallow cream and beat with electric mixer on high till stiff peaks form.about 2 minutes. Fold in chopped cherries, is using.
- Spread frosting over top and halfway down sides of angel food cake and serve immediately.
- We usually don't have any leftovers, so I am not sure how well this stores.