Sunken Cherry Cake Bars - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 sticks butter or margarine, softened
8 egg yolks
3 whole eggs
1 Oetker baking powder
1 c. sugar
2 pkg. Oetker vanilla sugar
3 c. flour
1 can cherry pie filling

Preparation

Grease a 9 x 13-inch pan.
Mix all ingredients together, except for pie filling.
Put cherries one after another, leaving about 1/2-inch space in between on top of batter.
(They will sink while baking.)
Bake at 350\u00b0 for 45 minutes or until cake tested is done.