My Grandmother's Recipe Box

Today was my grandmother's birthday and she would have been 89.   I really should be making the angel food cake with the birthday person's choice of either chocolate or pink whipped cream.   It was the birthday cake at almost everyone's birthday party (except mine because I did not like it).  But instead I pulled out this recipe for Sour Cream Cherry Coffee Cake.  I remember making a recipe like this one but with cherry pie filling and not preserves so I was curious about the cake.  1 stick unsalted butter 1 cup sugar 2 large eggs 1 cup fat free sour cream 2 cups flour High Altitude ass 2T 1t baking soda 1t baking bpowder 1T lemon zest 1/4 t salt 1T vanilla 1/2 best quality cherry preserves    Preheat oven to 350.  Butter two 8" square pans. In large bowl, beat butter with sugar until well combined.  Add eggs one at a time, beat well.   Add sour cream and mix well.   In small bowl, mix flour, pow...

Here is the 2nd recipe from my grandmother's recipe box.   Some of these must be lost recipes because no one in the family remembered Aunt Grace's Orange Cake.   I also don't recognize the handwriting on this recipe so I wonder who wrote it, but it was in the recipe box. Maraschino cherries in this recipe seems like an interesting choice but the cherries give the batter a nice pink color. This recipe also calls for the icing to be put on the hot cake - seems to be a trend.     This cake/cookie bar definitely has a taste that seems nostalgic. Happy Mother's Day Mom, Grandma, Grandma Dawn, Mom Marinich.