The challenge this week was to bake something using a sweet dessert wine. I have a recipe for a noble late harvest cake from Trinity Guest Lodge where I did a weekend cookery course with my mom. The recipe is not complete and so I guessed the temperature the cake had to be cooked at. I am sure we were told the correct temperature, but we were talking and drinking with the other mom and daughter team that we really were not paying a lot of attention. I decided to use wine from Hoopenburg, the name of the wine is Integer, hence the title of my cake recipe.
Integer Cake
Ingredients
- 115 g caster sugar - I used fructose
- 2 eggs
- 185 mls olive oil
- 125 mls dessert wine
- 80 mls milk
- zest of 2 lemons
- 185 g flour
- 12.5 mls baking powder
for the syrup:
- 115 g caster sugar - I used fructose
- 125 mls dessert wine
Method
- preheat the oven to 180? Celsius
- beat the eggs and the sugar until they are thick and pale
- add the wine, oil and milk and mix well
- add the zest and mix in
- sift the flour and the baking powder and gently mix in to the batter
- bake for 40 minutes in a prepared tin
to make the syrup:
- cook the wine and the sugar over a low heat until thick
- when the cake has cooled stab it a few times with a knife and then pour the syrup over
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Tandy
Sounds fabulous Tandy. My mom and I would be exactly the same – sounds like a fun weekend.
🙂 Mandy
it was such a great weekend 🙂
Looks great. See you tomorrow.
Friday greets to Dave!
yay! Friday greeets back 🙂
Wow, it looks yummy!!
thanks! and you are so great in real life 🙂
It looks a really delicious dessert… mmm, yummy! I’d invite you for a tea party if you brought this cake with you… 😛
*packs bags for Italy*
My “DIL” (soon hopefully) & I love baking w flowers, fruits, & now more with wine…all together. And we generally use them to help promote baking with goose eggs (sometimes ducks). Sadly I just lost both my geese, 1 hand raised, so i use up what I have left, transition to my duck eggs as I heal & decide whether to get more geese… BUT, what I do have left will go in to trying this recipe…
I really would love to have a ready supply of duck eggs 🙂