Sour Cream Cake with Grape Sauce!!!

Ingredients:

For the Cake:

3 cups flour - sifted

1 ½ cups sugar

1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 cup butter

1 tsp. baking soda

4 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1 ½ cups sour cream

Preheat Oven 350 degrees:

Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and set aside.

In the bowl of an electric mixer combine the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla; mix until light and fluffy.

At a low speed, beat in flour mixture alternately with the sour cream. Mix this until smooth.

Place batter into a buttered and flour dusted baking pan. Bake 45-50 minutes or until toothpick test comes out clean.

Grape Sauce:

2 cups red grapes

2 star of anise

Dashes of ground cloves

Dashes of cinnamon

Dashes of nutmeg

1 ½ cups sugar

¼ cup wine

¼ cup water

Juice of ½ an orange

Place all of the above ingredients in a sauce pan and simmer on low until the sauce slightly thickens.

Cool sauce down and drizzle over cake.

This is a light and fluffy cake and perfect served with fresh whip cream and the grape sauce.

With Love,

Catherine

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