Cherry Coffee Cake

• 1 cup butter (or shortening)
• 1.75 cups of sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1.5 tsp. baking powder
• 3 cups flour
• 2 cans of pie cherries

Cream butter & sugar. Beat eggs and add to the mixture. Add vanilla. Stir a bit. Then add the flour and baking powder.

Pour 2/3 batter into a well greased jelly roll pan. Spread the 2 cans of cherry pie filling over the batter. Drop the rest on top using a tablespoon. There should be cherries showing through.

Bake 45 minutes at 350 degrees F.

If you like, frost with a powdered sugar frosting. I don't frost it, because I don't like things tooo sweet..