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Angel Food Cake with Fresh Blueberries and Sauce
Ingredients For This Recipe
1 Pre mixed Angel Food Cake Batter bought at store1 pint fresh blueberries
3 small sized strawberries to garnish
1/2 - 3/4 cup wine flavoured with blueberry
1/2 -3/4 teaspoon corn starch.
Prepare Your Ingredients
This recipe is made from a store bought Angel Food Cake costing around $3. The batter makes 2 - 8" square panned cakes. You simply cut one of the square cakes into 4 pieces, and from those 4 slices you can make 2 mini cakes or 4 mini cakes if using both square cakes.The batter is easy to make, put the powdered mix into a medium size glass mixing bowl; then just add the water. (I bought the Betty Crocker Angel Food Cake which used 1 and 1/4 cup water). Next use your Batter Mixer to beat it for 30 seconds on low speed and about 1 minute on medium speed. Pour the batter into your square pans and bake for about 30 - 35 minutes in the preheated oven - 350(for light grey metal pans). Follow the directions on the package is your using a dark baking pan.
Remove from oven when cooked and test with toothpick for doneness. Let it cool on cake rack for 10 or so minutes, then using a non metal knife or smooth plastic icing knife, make a careful edging around the cake. Then with your one hand turn the pan and remove the cake, using the other hand to gently nudge it from the pan if required.
Prepare Your Berries and Sauce Topping
Wash the blueberries under water and let them dry for 10 or so minutes. Wash your strawberries. Use a knife to thinly slice your strawberries to be used as garnish with the blueberries, and to provide color contrast on your cake topping.Cut the cake into four little cakes, and then put 2 cakes together. Then put the blueberries on top of each cake and place some strawberry slices on the blueberries.
For the sauce, we use a wine with blueberry flavour, then boil it for 10 or so minutes to extract the alcohol. I choose the Lunenburg Blueberry wine, made in Nova Scotia, costing $14 for a 750ml bottle. It has berries and blueberry flavours and is a sweet wine so it can be paired with our dessert, and also used in making a sauce for this dessert.
Pour 1/2 to 3/4 of a cup of the wine into a small saucepan, then boil it on the stove until it is less, or about 10 or so minutes. If you want some alcohol in your sauce then just boil it less time. Usually 10 minutes of boiling will reduce it to about half its' original amount(for this amount of wine 1/2 cup).
Once you have boiled off the alcohol (or some of it), add some corn starch to the wine in the saucepan to give it texture. First, put a small amount of water (1 - 2 teaspoon) into a small bowl, then add 3/4 teaspoon corn starch. Mix then together good until they are liquidty. Then with your wine on medium high heat on the stove, pour in your corn starch mixture, stirring the mixture as you pour the corn starch into the wine sauce. Keep stirring while the wine sauce continues to slightly boil, then reduce heat once it has the consistency you want - usually minute or so.
Don't add sugar to the wine sauce, and don't add sugar to the blueberries. The sweetness of the cake will blend well with the ripe natural sweetness of the blueberries and strawberries, and the wine sauce flavour will add to that making a delicious blend of sweet, ripe, and slightly tart.
Choose A Wine
When choosing a sweet wine, you pair the wine with the dessert, and labels at the wine store will usually give food pairing suggestions for the various sweet wines just like regular table wines. Generally speaking, the sweet wine should be sweet enough to match the sweetness of your dessert, or sweeter than the dessert. For this wine we choose, the store label matched it with desserts, and with blueberries. Our cake is a lighter style of cake and the blueberries are a natural ripe sweetness; so this pairing is good because our wine is sweeter than the blueberries and about the same sweetness as our cake.Since we made our sauce with the Lunenburg Blueberry sweet wine, we can use the same wine as our wine to drink with this dessert. This wine tastes best served at room temperature. Choose a sweet wine glass for your wine as it will taste better in this type of glass. Sweet wine glasses are typically smaller in size then regular wine drinking glasses. These glasses are also commonly used to drink Sherry, Port, Tawny wines.(all sweet types of wine)
Enjoy!
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