3 c. sugar
2 sticks butter
1/2 c. Crisco
5 eggs
1 tsp. baking powder
3/4 c. nuts
1 c. fine cut coconut
1 (10 oz.) jar cut cherries
1/4 c. milk
1 c. sour cream
1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
1 tsp. lemon flavoring

Cream butter and Crisco. Gradually add sugar a little at a time. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each one. Sift together flour and baking powder. Add part of the flour and beat, add milk, continue beating, add more flour and beat. Add sour cream and flavoring and beat. Add remaining flour and beat. Add nuts, coconut, and cherries. Beat well. Bake in a large tube pan, well greased and floured.

Bake at 325 degrees for 1 1/2 hours. Cool and ice.

ICING:

1/2 stick butter
1 tsp. vanilla
8 oz. cream cheese
1 box confectioners' sugar
1/2 c. chopped nuts

Cream butter until real creamy, add cream cheese, add sugar and vanilla, add nuts and mix together all ingredients until very creamy. Frost cake.