{"id":529,"date":"2013-02-14T09:07:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2013-02-14T09:07:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:07:47","slug":"happy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/happy-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentines Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p>Do you have a Valentine tradition?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Carolyn has one that she has been observing for the past 50 years. She makes a Maraschino Cherry Cake for her family. \u00a0She uses heart shaped pans to bake the cake in and serves it to her family to celebrate Valentines Day. \u00a0When she was asked, &#8220;Is there a special reason why you make this cake?&#8221; her reply was simple: &#8220;Because it is good!!&#8221; Here is the recipe for Carolyn&#8217;s family&#8217;s traditional valentine cake. \u00a0Maybe you will want to make it for your family on Valentines Day too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Carolyn&#8217;s Maraschino Cherry Cake<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2-1\/2 cups flour<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1-1\/2 cups sugar<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3-1\/2 teaspoons baking powder<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1 teaspoon salt<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1\/2 cup shortening or butter<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3\/4 cup milk<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1\/4 cup maraschino cherry juice<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1 teaspoon vanilla<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2 teaspoons almond flavoring<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4 egg whites, unbeaten<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">18 maraschino cherries, finely chopped<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1\/2 cup pecans or walnuts, chopped<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sift flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder in to a bowl. Combine juice and milk. Add 3\/4 cup of this mixture with the flavorings. Beat for 2 minutes. Add the remaining liquid and the egg whites. Beat for 2 more minutes. Add the cherries and the nuts. Blend. \u00a0Bake in two, deep 9 inch layer pans (heart shaped ones if you have them) at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the icing, beat together 1 cube butter, 1 box powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, 2 tablespoons maraschino juice, vanilla and almond flavoring. \u00a0Chopped cherries can be added to the frosting.\u00a0Carolyn\u00a0usually\u00a0garnishes\u00a0the cake with the cherries instead of adding them to the frosting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No matter how you spend it, \u00a0the Reese family wishes you a delightful Valentines Day.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/happy-valentines-day\/attachment\/10918\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-535\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-535\" alt=\"10918\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10918-260x300.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">2013 Road to California Entry<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-road-to-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}