Holiday Pound Cake from Ruth Abate dishes as eaten around the world Holiday Dessert bake-off Christmas Special recipe. Best Misc dessert 2010 recipe.

Ingredients 

8 ounce package cream cheese, softened

1 cup butter, softened

1 ½ cup sugar

1 ½ teaspoon vanilla

4 eggs

2 ¼ cups flour

2 ½ teaspoons baking powder

4 ounces green candy cherries

4 ounces red candy cherries

1 cup walnuts

Method 

Grease and flour a tube or Bundt pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Blend cream cheese, butter, sugar, and vanilla in mixer bowl. 

Add eggs and mix well. Add 2 cups of flour with baking powder. Batter will be thick.

Combine the remaining ¼ cup of flour with the cherries and walnuts, and fold into batter.

Bake for 1 hour until inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10-15 minutes and remove from pan. Cool on wire rack.

Mix 1 ½ cups of confectioner’s sugar with 2 tablespoons milk for glaze. 

Glaze cake when cool and garnish with cherries and nuts.