Recipe - Filled Cherry Cake

CAKE
1 cup Butter
1 cup Sugar
2 lg Eggs, Well Beaten
2 cup AllPurpose Flour
3 teaspoon Baking Powder
One half teaspoon Salt
1 cn Cherry Pie Filling

STREUSEL TOPPING
One fourth cup Sugar
One fourth cup Flour
2 tablespoon Butter
One half cup Walnuts or Pecans, Chopped

With an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and mix. Add
flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix well, until creamed. Spread a liberal
amount of the dough into a greased 15X11inch pan. Cover with cherry pie
filling. Scatter remaining dough by teasponful over filling.

FOR STREUSEL TOPPING: In small bowl, mix sugar and flour. Cut in butter
with a pastry blender until crumbly. Stir in nuts. Sprinkle streusel
topping over cake and bake at 350 degrees for one hour.

NOTES : Comment from Flo: The time sounds awfully long, but I have tasted
this and it is yummy. Published in January/February '97 Tastes of Oklahoma
column which is written by Flo Burtnett. Vol. LXXVIII, No 1/2, Farm News &
Views, Oklahoma Farmers Union.
Recipe by: Kathryn Naffziger, Okeene, OK Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #597
by Carole Jarvis jarvis@qns.com on May 03, 1997