My family usually spends a good chunk of the summer vacationing on the beach in Massachusetts. We relax and read books, we search for sea glass and swim in the ocean and we eat… we eat a lot. We eat Maple Leaf hot dogs on New England-style hot dog rolls. We eat crinkle-cut salt and vinegar chips. We eat loads of lobster and chowder and fried clams. We eat soft serve ice cream with rainbow jimmies. We eat fresh corn salad and local blueberries. We eat watermelon and nectarines.
And most of all– we eat loads and loads of fresh cherries!
Cherry Limeade Pound Cake
One summer on our New England vacation, I took some of those fresh cherries, and I baked them into a Cherry Limeade Pound Cake.
It may sound glamorous and all… staying in a beach house for a couple of weeks. Trust me, it’s not as glamorous as you might imagine. It’s an extremely rustic place we stay in. No TV. No air conditioning. No internet! And no cherry pitter. I have a solution for that!
How do you pit cherries without a cherry pitter?
If you don’t have a cherry pitting tool, don’t worry because you don’t really need to spend the money to buy one. Use a straw to pit cherries! Just hold the cherry securely on a paper towel and pop the straw straight through the top. The pit will come right out! It’s a bit time consuming to pit cherries, but it’s completely worth it in the end for this cake.
I’m not a soda drinker at all… just the occasional orange soda or root beer. But on a hot summer vacation, I like to drink Cherry-flavored 7-Up. This is some good stuff, and it’s what I put in this Cherry Limeade Pound Cake.
The cake turns out to be a typical dense pound cake, flavored with plenty of lime and chopped fresh cherries, and then drizzled with more limey glaze.
The flavors in the Cherry Limeade Pound Cake remind me of Sonic Drive In’s Cherry-Limeade, that heavenly drink that I only discovered last summer on our family’s cross country road trip.
Here’s a heavenly slice of the pound cake. It’s tender and full of that lemon-lime flavor with a hint of cherry. And it is always quite the big beach-house hit. If you’re looking for more cake recipes, you might also enjoy this Chocolate Sheet Cake or a Moist Vanilla Cake. Irish Cream Bundt Cake and Rainbow Swirl Cake are also delicious choices!
