Jenny's Favorite Blackberry
Wine Cake
Ingredients:
1
Box Duncan Hines White Cake Mix
4
eggs
1/2
cup oil
1
cup Manischewitz blackberry wine
1
box Royal Blackberry Gelatin Dessert
(Jell-O no longer makes a Blackberry
flavor.)
½ C
Chopped Pecans
For
Glaze:
1 C
Powdered Sugar
½ C
Butter, softened
1/2
cup blackberry wine
Directions:
Preheat
oven to 325º. Grease and heavily flour a standard Bundt pan. Set aside.
Mix
cake mix with Royal Gelatin. Add eggs, oil and wine; mix well. Sprinkle nuts in
bottom of Bundt pan. Pour in batter carefully so as not to disturb nuts.
Bake
for 40-45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
When
cake is done, mix powdered sugar, butter, and 1/2 cup blackberry wine and bring
to a boil.
Pour
1/2 of glaze mixture over hot cake as soon as it comes out of the oven. Leave
in pan 30 minutes. Take out and pour remainder of glaze over cake.
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"A genial hearth, a
hospitable board, and a refined rusticity." ~William Wordsworth
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Not
for those underage fans of Jenny's cooking...
Cake:
1
cup chopped, toasted pecans or walnuts
1 18-1/2 ounce yellow cake mix
1 3-3/4 ounce instant vanilla pudding mix
4 eggs
1/2 cup cold milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup Barcardi dark rum
Glaze:
1
stick butter
1/4 cup water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup Barcardi dark rum
Cake:
Preheat oven to 325º.
Grease
and flour 12-cup Bundt pan. Sprinkle nuts on bottom of pan. Combine all cake
ingredients. Beat for 2 minutes on high with electric mixer. Pour into prepared
pan. Bake for 1 hour. Cool in pan. Invert on serving plate. Prick top with
fork. Drizzle glaze over top of cake. Use brush or spoon to put extra dripping
back on cake.
Glaze:
Melt butter in saucepan. Stir in water and sugar. Boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and stir in rum.
Note:
The rum will cause steam. Be careful not to burn yourself.
Notes
in the Margin: The longer this cakes sits, the better the taste. It will stay
moist a long time. It also freezes beautifully.
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"Principles have no
real force except when one is well fed."
~Mark Twain (a member of the
family, by the way, via Kaye's side!)
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