Berry, It’s Cold Outside (Cake)

Dan    Recipes, Something Sweet     baking, berries, comforting, desserts, holidays, rustic

What you’ll need…

Cake:

3 cups whole wheat flour

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 TBSP cinnamon

1 TSP ground cloves

1 TBSP baking powder

1/4 TSP salt

1 cup softened butter (or vegan margarine)

2 eggs (or egg-replacer equivalent)

3/4 cup milk (soy if vegan)

a handful (or so) of the berries listed below…

Sauce:

1 cup brewed MarketSpice tea (water will do if cooking with tea scares you)

1 cup raspberries

1 cup blueberries

1 cup blackberries

1/2 cup white sugar

This one is for all of those people who pull the ‘I really can’t stay’. No buts, baby, you’re going to stay and have some god damn delicious dessert. This should, perhaps, be titled ‘Rustic Berry Cake‘, but due to our current holiday season I felt as though a Christmas song title should be referenced.

This will be a cake walk…(officially my best joke. ever.) First off, preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Using an electric mixer, on low setting, combine all cake dry ingredients. Now, add the softened butter, and let mix until crumbly. Finally, add-in the milk, eggs, and that handful of berries (I favour blackberries, so my handful leans towards those, but a mixed handful is encouraged). Mix until the dough pulls away from the side of the bowl. Press the dough into a prepared 8″ round cake pan and let bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick poke comes back clean!

Moving on…take all of the sauce ingredients and place them into a medium-sized pot. Give the mixture a few good stirs until the sugar dissolves. Turn to medium-high heat until the pot starts to bubble then reduce to low heat and let simmer for 25 minutes, or until the sauce reduces by 2/3s. Remember to stir occasionally.

Once the cake is out of the oven and the sauce is ready and warm dish it out to your girlfriend/boyfriend/friends/cat/family/whomever you are eating with…Remember to be nice and generous with the sauce. It’s the best part.

** Note: I did let the cake cool, then sliced in half so I could put the berry mixture in the middle and on top. Double down.

Serves 5-6

Total cook time…40 min

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