July 6, 2010
Giveaway: Booze Cakes
Y’all know I like to tipple from time to time. That’s why, when I heard about a book called Booze Cakes, I pretty much knew it would be something you lovely readers would like for a giveaway (especially Sara Rose, am I right?). Quirk Books is raffling off one copy of this gorgeous cookbook to a lucky Pink of Perfection reader. Enter to win by leaving a comment about your favorite boozy recipe by midnight EST Friday, July 9. US mailing addresses only.
Update 7/12: And the winner is Amy! Thanks everyone for entering. Loved reading about your recipes!
Rachel @ Working Out Wellness: Wow, this book sounds awesome! I have to get my hands on it, stat.1 year ago
Maureen: I don’t have a boozy recipe, that is why I need this book!1 year ago
Marie: I’m probably in the minority, but I think a good rum-soaked fruitcake is just divine. Baileys chocolate chip cheesecake is pretty high up on the list too!1 year ago
BB: My favorite boozy recipe is actually just a good white or red wine sauce – simple and delicious. I don’t cook with alcohol very much (unless you count the drinking I do while I cook…) and would love some new recipes.1 year ago
Catharine: Soupe aux fraises! It’s summery, refreshing and uses 1/2 a bottle of white wine. I do love biscottini di Prato with a good vin santo and great conversation in the cooler months. I would love this book because my husband’s b-day is coming up and I am hoping to make him a good, boozy cake!1 year ago
lauriel: Mmm, the book sounds DELICIOUS! For me, although I enjoy spiking any number of creams with flavored alcohols, the classic tiramisu with rum is one of my favs. Sometimes I like to add a bit of amaretto in there too..
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Jessique: Last summer I decided that a hot toddy needn’t be hot, so I embarked on a journey to celebrate this highly drinkable tipple in a cooler, edible form. Thus began the life of the “Jel-Toddy”; a completely homemade gelatin confection that puts roses in the cheeks no matter the season. Fresh ginger, Maker’s, gelatin and lime peel makes for a delicious boozy confection. Perfect justification for an adult Jell-o shot, and perfect reason to grant this lass a book so she can keep feeding and boozing the masses. (Gin is the gelled alcohol of choice for summer months.)1 year ago
Alyssa: I make a killer Bailey’s-drenched cake for the holidays. It goes perfect with after-dinner coffee, especially if you spike the coffee with Bailey’s, too.1 year ago
Jennifer: I love simply recipes’ beef and beer carbonnade! mmmmmm1 year ago
Kira: Mmmm, I have a recipe for a chocolate whiskey cake that I’m dying to try.1 year ago
Meg: I recently inherited a cookbook from my grandmother that featured a recipe for homemade Kahlua… it was so fun to make, and I love using it in iced coffee this time of year for a weekend treat.1 year ago
E.: I love wine-poached pears — in an off-dry white for the summer or a light spicy red for a winter dessert.1 year ago
Christy: Definitely bananas foster. Especially when it’s flambéed!1 year ago
Adrienne: I looooove chocolate cake with Guiness or other stout. It’s my go-to winter party dessert
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Jecca: Ooh, I’d love that book! My favorite boozy recipe is Boca Negra from Baking with Julia — intense chocolate torte and white chocolate cream, both flavored with bourbon. So very very good, and hey, the first time I made it, I almost caught my kitchen on fire! Safety note: do not turn your back when booze is over an open flame.1 year ago
Angie (Telly's Tasty Tidbits): Actually, this weekend I made White Russian cupcakes which currently are my favorite boozy recipe because I LOVE White Russians. I like to make cupcakes for parties with my friends (think drinking game kind of parties), and I always try to make the cupcakes alcoholic of some sort so this book looks awesome!1 year ago
Kelly: Oh, this book sounds like so much fun! My current favorite is a rumsicle made with watermelon, fresh mint, lime, and, of course, rum.1 year ago
Angela Z.: why? why u.s. mailing addresses only? i live just north of the border. i read your blog, too
1 year ago
Angela Z.: why? why u.s. mailing addresses only? i live just north of the border. i read your blog, too
(p.s. tiramisu)1 year ago
Ginger: Oo… how fun — I’d love to give this as a gift for my friend Becky.1 year ago
lindsay: a) I would name a pet Booze Cakes
b) I love the tipsy desserts, too! I’ve made: Frangelico chip ice cream, Grand Marnier cheese cake, and I’m soaking dried cherries in port as we speak so that I can make choco-cherry brownies! Pick me! Pick me!
c) I worked in a tasting room in Napa and sold an amazing amount of a late harvest orange muscat by handing out my recipe for peach brown betty and telling guests to drizzle the muscat on top when it comes out of the oven.1 year ago
Lauren: I love making sorbets with various alcohols to make them softer. Most recent favorite was mango with black pepper infused vodka
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Sara Rose: I really enjoy adding kirsch and cherries to pound cake recipes . . . tee hee! And, we all know I’m a pretty huge fan of kahlua in brownies, like, weekly. MUAH!1 year ago
Carrie: my mom’s chocolate chip cookie recipe calls for creme de cacao which makes for awesomely chocolatey cookies1 year ago
Karen: I guess I need this book, because I do not have any really good boozy dessert recipes! I do like a good Black Russian drink though (kahlua and vodka…. especially with vanilla vodka!!!)…. it makes a good drinkable dessert!1 year ago
Amy Marie: The best truffles ever!!
about 20 oreos
3 Tbs. Kaluah
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 tsp. good vanill
mix it all together in a food pro, roll in balls. You can then roll them in more crushed oreos, cocoa powder, sprinkles, you name it… Or you can refrigerate for about an hour, then dip into melted chocolate.
Delicious with a good red wine!1 year ago
Sara Anne: My favorite boozy recipe was one of my mother’s: Derby Day Pie. It’s a bourbon and chocolate chip variation on Pecan pie, and it’s perfect with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. It came from a cookbook that got misplaced when my parents divorced, and I’m so glad I wrote it down and tucked it away when I first was learning to cook as a teenager! As a lover of boozy pie, I’m sure that mom would love boozy cake!1 year ago
Cheryl: I love a rum-soaked bundt cake baked in my mom’s original 70′s bundt pan.1 year ago
patricia: i love bourbon and brown sugar cake.1 year ago
Heather: I’d have to say rum balls, even though I haven’t made them in awhile. It’s the only boozy recipe I make other than chicken marsala.1 year ago
Tricia: RUM CAKE! Best and easiest recipe given to me by a friend. I don’t bake so this is my “fake” off baking….it’s delish and always a crowd pleaser. AND it’s a BUNDT cake baby! Even better! : )1 year ago
Christine S.: I could name dozens of boozy recipes I like! Favorites, though, are tiramisu, chocolate whisky cake from Wunsche Bros. in Old Town Spring, TX (ever have that or been there, Sarah?), italian cream cake spiked with rum and buttercream frosting spiked with rum, guinness cupcakes with bailey’s frosting…oh, could go on! Problem is I’d like more boozy recipes!:)1 year ago
dru: Mine is sauterne cake with almonds, always a hit, and I still remember rum cookies at Christmas from home.1 year ago
Samantha Angela @ Bikini Birthday: Beer Dip. Hands Down. It’s basically butter, cream cheese, beer, and mustard. Yes, it’s as good as it sounds.1 year ago
CS: OOooh! That book looks great. My favorite boozy recipe is either a Chianti granita or bourbon bread pudding. And, in college, my roommate and I used to impress boys with Cherries Jubilee!1 year ago
Christine H.: Norwegian cookies! The best ones have a healthy splash of brandy or rum. My mom can remember her grandmother & friend getting tipsy when they would make cookies ’cause they kept on taking swigs from the bottle, haha.1 year ago
Suzanne: I’ve never made it myself, but I remember loving Harvey Wallbanger cake when I was a kid in the ’70s! It’s got vodka & Galliano in the frosting I believe. The book looks like fun.1 year ago
J Fierce: Oh, gourmet had this wonderfully refreshing recipe for a watermelon lime bar made with a watermelon-tequila sorbet and a creamy lime topping-an adult creamsicle in bar form.1 year ago
kara: oh my gosh, that book looks amazing. i love soaking peaches in lillet and then topping with whipped cream. easy and delicious.1 year ago
Elizabeth B.: Our neighbors give away loaves of Vodka Bread every year at Christmas – I thought it sounded terrible until I tasted it!1 year ago
lawgoddess: I used to make a Bacardi rum pound cake that was very good. I made one for my boyfriend back in 1975, and now we’ve been married for 33 years.1 year ago
Tammi Salas: I make a kahlua kake that has vodka AND homemade kahlua in it. Delish. I need to add to my repertoire and this would be lovingly used.1 year ago
Christy: Hmmmm. I don’t use much booze in my cooking (I need this book). I love beef with red wine though. This is an area I definitely need to explore.1 year ago
Chloe (Island Wed): Anything chocolate, really anything with chocolate and I will inhale it. There’s a bakery by my work that makes a sinful chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and I have to slowly step away every time I go there.
What a fun book!1 year ago
Jaci: I love making short ribs using an entire bottle almost of red wine to cook them slowly in, yum1 year ago
Rhonda35: I have a great recipe for chocolate cake filled with Nutella – I always add a splash of Frangelico to the batter – mmmm! Also, I love to marinate London broil in vodka and herbs before grilling.1 year ago
Holly: My favorite boozy cake is Italian Cream laced with Whaler’s Coconut Rum. My Mormon relatives lick their forks clean.1 year ago
ShootingStarsMag: I know some people that would LOVE this. I hope I can enter w/o a recipe…I honestly don’t have one. I’m not the drinker. haha1 year ago
Tamara Nicole: MMmmmmm pineapple rum cake is my fave!!!1 year ago
DesigningDiva: I would love to get my oven mitts on this book! I don’t bake with booze very much – but I do cook with it quite often, especially in Italian and French dishes (obviously good pairings!). My mom’s rum cake is fantastic – so delicious and moist and it just gets better the longer
it sits out…..YUM.1 year ago
Sylvia: Caribbean-style rum cake is my favorite! The Cuban variety is called bizcocho borracho, or drunken cake, which just adds to the appeal. Crumbly vanilla rum cake is delicious enough, but pineapple-upside-down and banana-liqueur-spiked varieties kick it up to the next level of utter deliciousness.1 year ago
Amy C: I got really excited when I saw the rss feed, because I thought you were giving away already-made boozy cakes! lol! But hey, why give a woman a cake when you can teach her and she can bake all life long?
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I like anything that combines bananas and rum, particularly set on fire
Jessica I.: Oh man, the rum cake I made for my husband’s holiday office party last year was incredible! There is rum in the batter and then an unbelievable amount of butter rum syrup that you soak the cake in after it bakes. I think everyone appreciated the buzz on a busy winter day!
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Jaime: I love my grandma’s rum cake- nothing like it!
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Shelli: Zinful Devil’s Food Cupcakes! A receipe from Brownies For Dinner. Yummy!1 year ago
Kate (Southern Belle Simple): My fingers are crossed for this great looking read! Hope I win for sure! I’ve never made a cake with alcohol, which is why I need this book pronto!1 year ago
RH: My grandmother’s rum cake. We lived several states away from each other throughout my childhood, but each winter season the whole family looked forward to that special Christmas package containing her special rum cake. Its long journey to our doorstep allowed the glaze to really soak in and I believe that’s what made it so addictive as I’ve used her recipe several times but have never been able to recreate the goodness.1 year ago
Starlene: irish car bomb cupcakes for sweet and my beer and bacon mac and cheese for savory.1 year ago
Stephanie: I love the beer bread from Trader Joe’s. You can choose which beer you want and it varies the taste of this delicious bread! YUMMMM!1 year ago
Kayduh: I love to add red wine to my chili, white or red wine to just about every pasta sauce and I love champagne cupcakes!1 year ago
melanie: this book looks amazing!! my favorite are the rum balls i make at christmas, with extra rum!1 year ago
beth: I love that sweet flavor beer biscuits have — and, of course, they’re even better buttered. Mix 4 cups biscuit mix, 1 tablespoon sugar and a bottle of Shiner with a fork, pour in a buttered muffin tin, bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. Oh boy!1 year ago
Jessica F: I love this book! (Well, in theory. I’ve never actually held it…but I’m sure it would be as great as my imagination tells me it is!)
My favorite boozy-style recipe would be Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes! You double the fun with both Guinness and Bailey’s Irish Cream. Mmmm…1 year ago
Jackie: Tequila infused pound cake from Mexico once – muy bueno!1 year ago
Seton: White chocolate mouse pie with cherry kirsch sauce. It’s the perfect cold dessert for a hot summer day!1 year ago
Jen: Booze cakes…what a great idea! I have never made one. In fact the only time I use alcohol in cooking is adding wine to sauce or risotto or in tequila lime chicken…which sounds great right now if only I didn’t have to stand by a stove to make it!
I think my favorite boozy dessert WILL be the whiskey soaked bread pudding I have been planning to make for 2 weeks. OR! I just remembered! I have made peach cobbler in a cast iron pan (also whiskey soaked courtesy of Tyler Florence) and that one is also great. Odd, since I don’t drink whiskey. It looks great in a glass, though!1 year ago
Kelly: My husband makes pancakes spiked with Bailey’s. It is actually quite good.1 year ago
Sadaf Trimarchi: I like booze spiked desserts, but what I really love is salty/sweet combos with real food. Like marsala wine and mushrooms over pan seared chicken coated in panko and finished with butter. And for cold weather nights, burgundy soaked mushrooms with roast beef or rack of lamb.1 year ago
AnneHD: Le baba au rhum! My fiancé’s grandma makes a fabulous one, with a delicate crunchy sugary crust on it. But I also have a soft spot from the original one, from Stoerer, rue Montorgueil, Paris. Decadent.1 year ago
Whitney: My favorite recipe is sangria with gummy bears! It’s the perfect amount of childhood memories in a very grown up drink. Just use a full bottle of pinot, half a cup of rum, chop of some apple, add orange juice, and then put in as many gummy bears as you like. I always try to put in more red gummy bears than anything else but I accidentally end up eating them cause they’re my favorite color!1 year ago
Vanessa: wow, I just read all of the previous comments and can’t believe how many amazing boozy recipes there are out there. white russian cupcakes? i’m in! as it turns out, the only cooking i’ve done with booze has been risotto or sauce, booo.. but a shiny new cookbook might help change that!1 year ago
Bella: I love brisket slow roasted in a rich beer. It gives it the subtle tang, tenderness…and of course, booziness.1 year ago
Chris: I had a former co-worker that made an amazing Rum cake on special occasions. I could kick myself everyday for not getting that recipe before leaving that job! It was amazing!1 year ago
Amy: I love Car Bomb cupcakes- Guinness chocolate cake, whiskey ganache filling, and Bailey’s buttercream icing- YUM! I also love rum cake, but I don’t have a good recipe- I need this book!
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Stacy Reardon: Ah! This is perfect for me. My go-to cake is my mom’s Whiskey Cake. It’s awesome, and simple, and I once made someone drunk with it.
(Or so she claimed!)1 year ago
Amanda: I once had these divine eggnog donuts with some kind of rum glaze. Heaven.1 year ago
Jessica: Two words: Rum balls! Three words: Cherry Bourbon Jam! Four words: Guinness Dark Chocolate Brownies! Five words: Please give Jess the book! Looks like a whole bunch of fun.1 year ago
kelly: ooh that looks awesome! i love rum balls
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Bethany: I love Bananas Foster! The richness of the rum, the warm bananas, the sugar and all that butter! Plus, it’s set on fire!
Then you get to top it with ice cream and watch rivers of creamy vanilla ooze all over the dish.1 year ago
Natalie: I like to whip up some boozy baked french toast in the afternoon following a Saturday night debacle. Challah with a little cream, baileys, grand marnier, and cinnamon topped with almonds. Nom, nom nom.1 year ago
Leah: Definitely Mojito Mini-cupcakes! Closely followed by my SIL’s rum cake recipe. But the rum cake is more of a winter thing, and the mojito cupcakes are a summer thing. I first had them at a friend-of-a-friend’s 30th bday party at a bar. She is an incredible woman and baker and made dozens of these mini cupcakes for everyone who came. SO good!1 year ago
elaine: What a great giveaway book! My favorite booze cake is pina colada cake.1 year ago
geek+nerd: Oooh, I don’t have any boozy baking recipes – clearly why I need a book entitled “Booze Cakes.” However, I do have a delightful cocktail recipe: http://blog.geekxnerd.com/2010/05/mon-petit-miel-drink-recipe.html. It involves French liqueur – you’d love it!1 year ago
Jessica: I haven’t done much cooking with alcohol. Does my love of store-bought–i know that is against the purpose of this thread–vodka spaghetti sauce count?
If not, I’ll go with vodka raspberry lemonade. Delicious in the summer!1 year ago
Heather: Boozy tiramisu!!! I could use some more boozy recipes though : )1 year ago
Kanesha Lee Baynard: Well – it’s not a boozy cake but we love boozy macarons. We like to put Grand Marnier, amarula or Kahlúa in the ganache or butter cream filling. We’re a bit heavy handed too!1 year ago
lauren: ohh i’m trying to perfect my recipe for rum balls! this book would be perfect for more inspiration
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Jerri Brown: A rum cake a co-worker brought in to work once. I called it her “sit me down”rum cake because after one bite I had to sit down. What a kick!1 year ago
Christina: I’ve had a Margarita cupcake that was really good. I guess it would have to be my favorite.1 year ago
Kayla: My grandpa’s bourbon pecan pie…soooo good!!1 year ago
Amanda Jean: I love to make Bourbon Balls, but that’s about the extent of my boozy baking. This book would be a great addition to my cookbook collection!1 year ago
Elizabeth: I make my grandmother’s pecan pie recipe, but substitute Jack Daniel’s for the vanilla. Mmmmm!1 year ago