Name: Cherry Cake
Ingredients: 1 pound cake (or any plain or layer cake recipe); boiled or royal icing; red icing for decoration; candied cherries for garnish; artificial cherry leaves for garnish

Cherry Cake

Ingredients

1 pound cake (or any plain or layer cake recipe)
boiled or royal icing
red icing for decoration
candied cherries for garnish
artificial cherry leaves for garnish

Directions

Prepare the cake

Bake a pound cake or any plain or layer cake recipe and let it cool.

Decorate

Ice the cooled cake with boiled or royal icing.
Once the icing is firm, use red icing to create a fancy design on top.
Garnish with candied cherries and artificial cherry leaves.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Pound cake: Provides the base structure and crumb that the icing and decorations sit on.
Boiled or royal icing: Forms a firm, sweet coating that holds the red decorative design.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.