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cherry almond cake


"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse

"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb

"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli

"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child

"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio

"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare

"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne

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Cherry Almond Cake

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon almond extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon bakin' powder
1 teaspoon bakin' soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup dairy sour cream
1 [21 ounce size] can cherry pie filling
3/4 cup almonds, sliced

Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 350�. Grease a 9x13" bakin' pan.
2) Put butter and sugar in a large mixin' bowl.
3) Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for about four minutes.
4) Add the eggs and mix well.
5) Stir in the almond extract.
6) Combine flour, bakin' powder, bakin' soda and salt in a medium bowl and mix well.
7) Add flour mixture to butter mixture, alternately with the sour cream.
8) Mix 'til ingredients are just combined.
9) Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared pan.
10) Spoon the cherry pie fillin' evenly over batter.
11) Sprinkle with almonds.
12) Bake for thirty-five to forty minutes, or 'til the cake tests done.
13) Let cool in pan a while before cuttin' into squares.

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