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ermingarden) wrote2018-12-31 09:26 pm
ermingarden) wrote2018-12-31 09:26 pm
Port Wine Cake
As I mentioned in the last post, I made port wine cake for our New Year's dinner! Here is a picture:
This is my mom's recipe and, unlike the other baking I have been doing recently, is not completely from scratch, as it uses cake mix. This is one of the easiest things in the world to bake, but it is always a big hit!
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients
1 lb. box yellow cake mix
3.5 oz. package instant vanilla pudding
1 1/4 cup port wine or sweet sherry
3/4 cup safflower oil
4 eggs
Directions
Mix all ingredients together until smooth. Pour into a greased bundt pan or 10-inch tube pan. Bake at 350°F for 40-45 minutes, rotating pan halfway through baking time. Cake is done when toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in pan, then turn out. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Note that alcohol cooks off in baking, so the cake is not alcoholic - and it can be a hit with kids! Two of my little sister's friends are sleeping over tonight, and all of the kids really liked it.
I keep telling my mom to enter her port wine cake in the "Tricks with a Mix" category at our county fair. If she won't do it this summer, I'll do it for her!
I hope you all have a lovely 2019!
This is my mom's recipe and, unlike the other baking I have been doing recently, is not completely from scratch, as it uses cake mix. This is one of the easiest things in the world to bake, but it is always a big hit!
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients
1 lb. box yellow cake mix
3.5 oz. package instant vanilla pudding
1 1/4 cup port wine or sweet sherry
3/4 cup safflower oil
4 eggs
Directions
Mix all ingredients together until smooth. Pour into a greased bundt pan or 10-inch tube pan. Bake at 350°F for 40-45 minutes, rotating pan halfway through baking time. Cake is done when toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in pan, then turn out. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Note that alcohol cooks off in baking, so the cake is not alcoholic - and it can be a hit with kids! Two of my little sister's friends are sleeping over tonight, and all of the kids really liked it.
I keep telling my mom to enter her port wine cake in the "Tricks with a Mix" category at our county fair. If she won't do it this summer, I'll do it for her!
I hope you all have a lovely 2019!
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The cake sounds much like one of my favourite childhood cakes, which was called "red wine cake" and done with a dry red wine, and sometimes cherries and chocolate drops. I have to do one of these again soon, and also try it with a dessert wine, this sounds interesting. (I'll go the old-fashioned way, though, and bake it from scratch. ;o) I've never used cake mixes or something similar, I don't even know if instant pudding exists hereabouts. *g* ) Cooking-nerd me also finds it interesting that you're mentioning safflower oil; I think it's the first time I've read this in a non-German recipe, and don't know if it's at all common elsewhere.
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