Meet the new sticky toffee pudding - sticky sherry cake. Pedro Ximenez is a rich, treacly dessert sherry, traditionally produced in the Spanish region of Montilla-Moriles in Andalucia. The white Pedro Ximenez (PX) grapes are dried in the hot sun to concentrate their sweetness before being pressed, fermented, fortified and barrel aged. Serve this grown-up treat with whipped cream, yoghurt or ice-cream and lashings of sticky syrup.
3 eggs
150g castor sugar
150ml Pedro Ximenez sherry (available from leading liquor stores for about $20)
150ml olive oil
1 tbsp grated orange zest
180g plain flour, sifted
2 tsp baking powder
icing sugar for dusting
100g muscatels or raisins
150ml Pedro Ximenez
Heat the oven to 180C. To make the syrup, boil the Pedro Ximenez for two minutes until syrupy, add the muscatels or raisins and set aside to cool.
To bake the cake, lightly oil a 20-centimetre diameter cake tin. Beat the eggs and sugar with an electric mixer until pale - about five minutes. Add the Pedro Ximenez, olive oil and orange zest, mixing well. Sift the flour and baking powder into a second bowl, and gradually pour in the cake batter, whisking by hand until smooth.
Pour the batter into the cake tin and bake for 45 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool for at least 20 minutes.
Dust the cake with icing sugar and top with the muscatels or raisins. Drizzle with the syrup and serve with cream, ice-cream or yoghurt.
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