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Bourbon Vanilla Dessert Cake

Written by Published on Updated on June 5, 2019 in Dessert

Hello there friend,

How are things today?  The weather took a turn again, it has been quite cold!!  I thought we were done wearing  hats and scarves.  The weather channel announced that we should be having high temps towards the end of the week,  we will just have to wait and see. 🙂  A few weeks ago I had mentioned in a previous post that I would be starting Yoga classes. Last Thursday was so suppose to be my first Yoga class, but unfortunately it was cancelled. I received an email on Wednesday stating that they did not have enough people sign up for the class. 🙁   I was so looking forward to it, and honestly I think sending an email the day before the class is to start is just a bit too late.  If they had send it a few days earlier I would have been able to search for something else.

So, I headed straight for my garden and starting cutting the grass, taking out a few weeds here and there.  I still have more work to do and the truth of the matter is that it really isn’t that big of a garden.  So, I should have it done in about 2 hrs with a few breaks in between. 🙂

My brother came over on Saturday, I knew he was coming over a bit later in the day, so that gave me plenty of time to bake a cake.  I wanted to try out something new, so I searched around and found this delicious recipe from bake from scratch. 🙂  There were some ingredients in the original recipe which I did not have on hand, so I tweaked it. 🙂  It turned out to be a light, and tasty cake with a strong taste of Bourbon Vanilla.  yummm 🙂

Have a great week!!! 🙂

BOURBON VANILLA DESSERT CAKE

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Ingredients
  

  • 3 cups All Purpose Flour
  • 1 1/2 cups of Butter softened
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 5 Eggs
  • 2 tablespoons Bourbon Vanilla Extract
  • 1 cup Milk
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt

Instructions
 

  • Combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
  • Add the Bourbon Vanilla Extract.
  • Continue by adding in the eggs, butter and sugar.
  • Beat on high for 10 minutes. Pour into buttered bundt or baking pan and bake at 180 for 1 hour. This of course depends on your oven.

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Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

28 Comments

  1. popsiclesociety
    April 15, 2019 at 5:33 am  ·  Reply

    Gardening is helpful too for stretching 😉 Wonderful cake 😋 Have a great week! 🤗

  2. efge63
    April 15, 2019 at 6:13 am  ·  Reply

    Have a nice week Sophie!!!

    Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

    E. Lockhart

  3. crushedcaramel
    April 15, 2019 at 10:03 am  ·  Reply

    That sounds delicious and the sponge looks beautifully light.

  4. Megala
    April 15, 2019 at 3:35 pm  ·  Reply

    Love this beautiful & delicious cake! It looks so soft & spongy.

  5. Invisibly Me
    April 15, 2019 at 5:16 pm  ·  Reply

    Yes, I heard that too, higher temps for the bank holiday weekend. I hope so, I’m freezing! It’s a shame about the yoga, Sophie, and disappointing that they let you know so late. I would have been pretty miffed about that. Do you think there may be any others elsewhere you could sign up for? I’ll keep my fingers crossed as it’s sad to think you’ve missed out when you were so looking forward to it.

    The recipe sounds divine! I love the idea of bourbon vanilla in this. Yum!
    Caz xx

    • foodzesty
      April 19, 2019 at 5:51 am  ·  Reply

      Thanks so much!!! So sorry for my late response. I will try to search around a bit more but for now it seems that I have so many things to do that I need to re check how I am planning my schedule. ufff 🙂 huge hugs

  6. Diana Tyler (la muse excentrique) ☕
    April 15, 2019 at 7:22 pm  ·  Reply

    Looks lovely, Sophie! I hope you have a great week!

  7. dtills
    April 16, 2019 at 4:51 pm  ·  Reply

    Is this on your pinterest page Sophie!! I want to pin it for later, it looks fantastic💕
    So sorry about the yoga class! Is there nothing else nearby for you? no other yoga studios?😔

  8. Lisa@LismorePaper
    April 19, 2019 at 12:00 am  ·  Reply

    This makes the cold so much better!

  9. a little Swiss, a little Canadian
    April 27, 2019 at 12:34 am  ·  Reply

    Love this cake, looks so beautiful and delicious!

  10. msw blog
    May 7, 2019 at 7:10 pm  ·  Reply

    That cake looks delicious. Thanks for sharing.

  11. emilyturner0007
    June 17, 2019 at 4:57 pm  ·  Reply

    Looks Good!

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