Vanilla and dessert wine cakes

Babiche Martens

Makes 12.

Ingredients

½ cup	Caster sugar
3	Eggs
1 tsp	Vanilla (Main)
¾ cup	Olive oil
½ cup	Dessert wine (Main)
⅓ cup	Milk
1 ½ cups	Self raising flour
½ tsp	Salt

Syrup

½ cup	Dessert wine
½ tsp	Vanilla essence/extract
1 ½ Tbsp	Sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 180C. Grease muffin tins and make collars from baking paper to prevent the mixture spilling over while baking.
2. Using electric beaters, beat together the sugar, eggs and vanilla until thick and pale. Beat in the olive oil, dessert wine and milk.
3. Fold in the flour and salt then spoon into the tins and bake for approximately 20 minutes or until done when tested with a skewer.
4. Simmer together the extra dessert wine, vanilla and sugar, while stirring for 5 minutes or until syrupy, then spoon over the warm cakes before serving.