George Washington's Birthday Cherry Cake Recipe

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Thoroughly grease a 9-inch Bundt® pan with shortening then dust with flour. Shake off any excess flour from the pan.

In a bowl mix together the flour sugar vegetable oil eggs vanilla extract baking soda cinnamon and salt until thoroughly combined. Gently mix in the cherry pie filling chocolate chips and nuts and scrape the batter into the prepared pan.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out with moist crumbs about 1 hour. Allow to cool for 10 minutes then invert pan and remove cake. Allow cake to finish cooling on a rack; sprinkle lightly with confectioners' sugar.