One week ago we went to Costco and loaded out cart with what looked like a tone of fruit! We picked up some champagne mangos, blackberries, raspberries, watermelon and grapes! If you ever shopped at Costco, you probably know that the grapes come into a NOT so small container, and as much as we tried to eat our away through it we still had leftover grapes in the fridge!! In an attempt to save them from going bad, I decided to bake a cake, as always, when in doubt get some flour and butter and you are on the right path to success!
I like using buttermilk in my baked goods, it makes them raise more, and the achieved texture is very nice, soft, airy and a little dense at the same time! The grapes in this cake are amazing, they add the right amount of juiciness and being fragrant they pair very well with the subtile vanilla flavor!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2 cup granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 tbsp of pure vanilla extract
- 3 cups of grapes
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9-inch-round baking pan and set aside. Using a wooden spoon, or the paddle attachment of an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, add the vanilla extract and the buttermilk, mixing well and scraping down the sides of the bowl. In a separate bowl mix together the baking soda, salt and flour and add it to the wet ingredients, mix everything by hand using a spatula just until the flour is well incorporated into the wet mixture, do not over mix.
Wash the grapes, drain the excess liquid, add 1 tbsp of flour and mix them, when all the grapes are covered in flour fold 2 cups into the batter. Pour the mixture into the baking dish. And decorate the top with the remaining grapes.
Bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow cake to cool to room temperature before slicing to serve.
The cake will last, at room tempreture, for up to 3 days.
Enjoy,
Catalina
This looks beautiful Catalina. I’ve never baked with grapes, but I love baking with buttermilk. I believe it also gives it additional moisture. So good! Are you Spanish? Cuz you mentioned your dad lives close to Barcelona?
No, I am not spanich, I am originally from Moldova, Eastern Europe, but my parents are divorced and my father lives in Spain, close to Barcelona!
Sounds delicious!
OMG – I had something like this in Italy and fell in love. Can’t wait to try it out!!! Thanks for sharing.
i’ve never baked with grapes before, what a great idea! looks delicious!
This cake looks super delicious – grapes are a gorgeous ingredient
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
This looks delicious!
Wow! Did you make this recipe up? It looks so delicious and I never in a million years would have thought to bake with grapes!
That looks so good!
Baking with grapes is such a great idea! I’m not the best cook (ever since I made Angel food cake and it didnt’ rise) so my favorite thing to do with Grapes is to freeze them!
I love baking with buttermilk too! Your cake is so beautiful and tall, what a great idea to add grapes to it!
I love using buttermilk in baked goods. This cake looks fabulous!
Interesting! Never tried grapes in cake… or even grapes that were cooked in any baked good before! Can’t believe I’ve never thought of that
Great way to use up buttermilk and grapes!
What a novel concept!!! this cake is inspiring…how the humble grape rises!!! lol
XOXO
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That is a beautiful cake! I’ve never tried a grape cake, but the combo of sweet grapes with buttermilk cake sounds amazing
love that you included grapes! I need to bake with them more often!
They are so good in this cake, very juicy and sweet!
Mmmm, these look scrum-diddly-umptious!
Wow … Grape cake? Never even heard of it but what a great idea!