Buttermilk Cake with Blackberries and Beaumes-de-Venise

Buttermilk Cake with Blackberries and Beaumes-de-Venise
Buttermilk Cake with Blackberries and Beaumes-de-Venise might be just the dessert you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains roughly 7g of protein, 14g of fat, and a total of 350 calories. This recipe serves 8. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have baking powder, salt, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

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Preheat oven to 350°F.
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Line bottom of a buttered 9- by 2-inch round cake pan with a round of wax paper, then butter paper.
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Sift together flour, baking powder and soda, and salt. Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, then beat in vanilla.
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Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, then, with mixer at low speed, beat in all of buttermilk until just combined.
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Add flour mixture in 3 batches, mixing after each addition until just combined.
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Spoon batter into cake pan, smoothing top, and bake in middle of oven until golden and a tester comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack 10 minutes, then run a thin sharp knife around edge of cake to loosen. Invert onto rack, then slide cake onto a cake plate.
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Bring wine, 3 tablespoons sugar, and zest to a boil in a small heavy saucepan, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Boil until syrup is reduced to about 2/3 cup, 1 to 2 minutes. Discard zest.
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Reserve 2 tablespoons syrup and pour remainder slowly and evenly over cake (cake will absorb syrup).
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Stir together reserved syrup, preserves, and remaining tablespoon sugar in small saucepan and simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened slightly, about 1 minute (it should be the consistency of a thick syrup). Put blackberries in a large bowl, then pour preserves mixture over berries. Gently stir berries with a rubber spatula to coat, then pour over cake, mounding blackberries on top.
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Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Cake can be made (without syrup and topping) 1 day ahead, cooled completely, then kept at room temperature, wrapped in plastic wrap.
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Ready In45 m.
Servings8
Health Score4
Dish TypesSide Dish
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