Vanilla-sparkling wine pound cake

By sweetypie

Ingredients

• CAKE BATTER:
• 3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup sparkling wine or milk
• 3 tbsp sour cream
• 2 cups sugar
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1/4 cup safflower or canola oil
• 5 cold eggs
• 2 tbsp vanilla past or vanilla extract
• 1 recipe Sparkling Wine Glaze (below)
• GLAZE:
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp sparkling wine
• sparkling wine

Details

Servings 16
Preparation time 30mins
Cooking time 80mins

Preparation

Step 1

preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour 10 inch tube pan; set aside. In large bowl mix together flour, baking powder, and salt. Sift mixture; set aside. Stir together sparkling wine and sour cream; set aside.

In large mixing bowl beat sugar, melted butter, and oil with electric mixer until well combined. add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Beat in vanilla. Beat on medium to high 3-5 mins or until thicker and lighter in color. Add one-third the flour mixture; beat on low just until combined, scraping sides of bowl as needed. Add half the wine mixture; beat just until combined. Repeat with one-third the flour mixture, the remaining wine mixture and the remaining flour mixture. With rubber spatula scrape batter into prepared pan.

Bake 50 - 55 mins or until a wooden pick inserted near centre comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 15 mins. Turn out on rack; cool completely. Drizzle with sparkling wine glaze.

SPARKLING WINE GLAZE:
in small bowl combine 1 cup powdered sugar and 1 tbsp sparkling wine. Stir in additional wine, 1 tsp at a time to reach drizzling consistency.