Cherry Cake

• 1 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup butter
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 1 ½ tsp vanilla
• 4 eggs
• 2 ¼ cups flour
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• 3/4 cup cherries

Combine first 5 ingredients. Sift 2 cups flour and baking powder. Add to mixture. Toss remaining flour with cherries. Fold into batter. Grease 10" tube pan. Pour in batter.

Bake at 325 º for 1 hour, 10 minutes. Cool 5 minutes, then remove from pan.