White Wine Cake

I was looking for a cake recipe for Easter. But most recipes were for carrot cakes.

Since I have eaten the last piece of mine 2 days ago, carrot cake was not my choice. The next most featured cake was with Advoocat, the thick egg liqueur. Not my choice either.

Sitting around thinking what easy to prepare cake there is, Red Wine Cake came to my mind. But it is a wintery type of cake with spices and chocolate combined with red wine. 

But that put up the question: is there a white wine cake? Google helped and a couple of recipes popped up. I used the one from "Zimtblume".

Recipe for a bundt cake tin:

300 g flour

4 eggs

200 g sugar

2 1/2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp vanilla sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

Pinch of salt

1 lemon zest and juice

150 ml white wine - not a dry one

120 g sunflower oil

Butter and breadcrumbs for the tin

Frosting:

100 g icing sugar 3 - 4 tbsp wine

chopped pistacchios and rose petals

Preheat the oven 180 C.

In a big bowl put in sugar, vanilla sugar and eggs and just use a whisk to combine it. No machinery needed.

Add zest and juice of the lemon and all the dry ingredients. Just stir it in.

Now wine and oil and the batter is ready.

Butter the bundt tin very well and toss some breadcrumbs around for coating. Fill in the batter and put it in the oven.

Baking time 45 to 50 min. Use a wooden skewer to check. Cool for 10 min in the tin, then turn it out on a wire rack. Cool down completely.

Mix the frosting and pour it over. Add the decor.