Steemit Culinary Challenge:Cakes
SUMMER WINE CAKE Inspired by a song by Nancy Sinatra
Cake:
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs
1/2 cup Cherry Kefir
1 tsp almond extract
Cream the butter and sugar. Add the eggs, Kefir, and extract. Mix well. Set aside. These are the wet ingredients.
2cups flour
1 tsp soda
1 teaspoon salt
Sift the dry ingredients together and add 1/2 to the wet ingredients . Mix well. Follow with the second addition.
Pour into greased and floured 8 " cake pans. Bake about 30 minutes at 350*
When cakes are baked, allow to cool. Place bottom layer on a platter. Slice strawberries 1/4 inch thick and place on top of the bottom layer. 
Filling:
4 oz. Cherry Kefir
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup dried cherries
Cook these 3 ingredients in a sauce pan until the cherries have plumped ad the liquid has gotten thick as an ice-cream topping. Remove from heat and add:
1 oz. Strawberry wine
1/2 teaspoon almond extract.
Stir until well combined. Set aside to cool to touch. When cool, spread on top of the sliced strawberries. 
Place second cake layer on top of filling. Prepare Glaze
Glaze:
1/2 cup cherry Kefir
6 oz. white chips
Melt these two items together in a stew pot and melt, stirring till well mixed. Remove from heat and add:
1/2 tsp. almond extract
1 oz. strawberry wine
Mix together and drizzle on top of cake. While glaze is still tacky, press strawberry halves and cherry halves into the wet glaze in a decorative pattern.![glaze.jpg]
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Serve and enjoy.
Cherry kefir and white chocolate chips! Ahh!!
That cake looks amazing! You are an artist😊
Thank you so much. It is delicious.
Hello there @grannycooks! So we've gone back in time 10 years and it seems I never even noticed! (you wrote '07 there hehe!) Normally I wouldn't accept entries past the 12:00 noon utc deadline, but as it's the second-to-last round ever of this challenge, what the heck!
I love the way you've decorated the cake beautifully with those succulant looking strawberries, and I also love how you present the finished cake in that final photo... very stylish and effective! Whereabouts are you from? did you ever watch Last of the Summer Wine? I can picture them sitting at their doilied table eating slices of this cake... now you put the thought of that show into my head! You put much time preparing the layers and making this cake really beautiful, and I wish you good luck now for the judging!
Ok, thanks for considering my entry. I will be one day earlier next time to allow for the time difference. I live in Oklahoma, USA. Yes, we used to watch that show on PBS. I can picture that too, now that you mention it. Thanks for the best wishes.
Lol. My husband had to point out to me what you meant about 07, I did not catch it from your post, or obviously when I wrote it. But hey, that negates my post being late. lol. I have senior moments sometimes. That is why it takes me so long to edit my You Tube videos, to take out all the uuuhhhs and uuummms, and duuhs. My husband and I get such a kick out of the dumb things we do. Maybe someday I will do a video with bloopers at the end.
Absolutely! There are lots of ways to make 'mistakes' part of the entertainment, and bloopers clips are always great! :-)