Ida'S Cherry Cake

• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup organic cane or white sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 3/4 cups AP unbleached flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• pinch of Kosher salt
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 2 cups pitted dark sweet cherries
• Powdered sugar

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream together butter and sugar. Mix in eggs, one at a time. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to wet. Stir in milk, vanilla and almond extract.
3. Butter a 9 inch square baking dish and line with pitted cherries. Pour batter over cherries and bake 30 minutes, until cake tester comes out clean. Dust with sifted powdered sugar while cake is cooling.

unsalted butter, cane, eggs, ap unbleached flour, baking powder, salt, milk, vanilla, almond, sweet cherries, powdered sugar

Taken from food52.com/recipes/5311-ida-s-cherry-cake (may not work)