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castalianspring
2007-09-25 12:39 am UTC (link)

This has nothing to do with butter icing, but it's still a damn good recipe.

BLACKBERRY WINE CAKE

1 box Duncan Hines white cake mix
½ cup oil (can substitute 1/3 cup applesauce for healthier version)
½ cup chopped pecans (optional)
1 small blackberry Jello mix (Royal Gelatin brand)
4 eggs
1 cup blackberry wine

Put chopped nuts in bottom of greased and floured bundt pan. Mix remaining ingredients well, pour in pan and bake at 325 deg. F for 45 - 50 minutes or until well done.

Glaze
½ box powdered/confectionary/icing sugar
blackberry wine

Put sugar in a bowl and slowly add wine until consistency is suitable for glaze. (Note: This will not take a lot of wine, so ignore recipes that tell you to use another half a cup of wine. You want something more like a paste than a liquid, or else it'll just run everywhere and you'll have a pool of icing around the cake instead of on top). When cake is done pour ½ of this over it. Punch small holes in top of cake. Let sit for about 30 minutes. Remove cake from pan. Pour remaining glaze over it. If you're pressed for time, just pour the whole lot on top and let it sit for a few minutes, just as good.

This makes a very sweet cake. You can make it without the nuts on top, but IMO the nuts really balance out the sweetness and make for a better cake. You should get a bright purple-pink result and a firm but moist consistency.

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	quartz 2007-09-25 03:23 am UTC (link)
	I have no blackberry wine, but I do have pineapple wine! Mmm... pineapple wine cake... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	castalianspring 2007-09-25 03:47 am UTC (link)
	...I did not know there was such a thing as pineapple wine. I need to try this variation as soon as humanly possible. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

quartz
2007-09-25 04:09 am UTC (link)

There's also mango and guava wines! Put some of those into a BBQ marinade and people weep with joy. Honey mead/wine is also excellent for cooking and baking, if one can find it. The only problems I've found with the non-grape wines is that they must be used within a week of opening, otherwise they just don't taste right anymore.

There's a wine for every fruit, though how people can drink some of them is beyond me... *shudders at the knowledge that durian wine exists*

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	castalianspring 2007-09-25 04:55 am UTC (link)
	Ooh, awesome. I wouldn't drink any of those on their own, but as additions to recipes they sound very useful indeed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

castalianspring
2007-10-05 02:47 am UTC (link)

...okay, much searching in my locality has turned up zero pineapple wine. None of the vendors had ever heard of it and one tried to give me a lecture on what is and isn't a wine (sigh, a vendor should know about fruit/country wines, damn it all). Might I ask where you obtained this mythical nectar, perhaps what the name of it is? I want to make this cake now and am being thwarted.

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quartz
2007-10-05 05:37 am UTC (link)

http://www.pasekcellars.com/scripts/wineList.cfm

Have drool rags handy when you click that link. They don't make normal wines! :D The state liquor stores in Washington sell it whenever they can get cases and that's where I got mine. Their blackberry is wonderful, but now my goal is to get ahold of some of the cranberry and see if I can't make cranberry wine jelly out of it.

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	puipui 2007-09-25 04:46 am UTC (link)
	OMG that sounds so good. drools (Reply to this)(Parent)

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