Wild Cherry Cake is a Valentine Favorite - Kitchen Wrangler | Melissa Guerra

Ingredients

• 2 ¼ cup cake flour (256g)
• 1 ½ cups sugar (300g)
• 3 ½ tsp. baking powder (14g)
• 1 tsp. salt (4g)
• ½ cup butter (115g) cut into cubes, softened but not melted
• 1 cup milk (240ml)
• 4 egg whites, room temperature
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract (5ml)
• 1 tsp. almond extract (5ml)
• 1 ½ cups butter (345g) room temperature
• 4 oz. cream cheese (115g) room temperature.
• 4 ½ cups powdered sugar (562g)
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract (10ml)
• Pinch salt
• 1/2 cup jarred Amarena wild cherries, syrup drained but reserved (120ml)
• Extra Amarena wild cherries for garnish