Drunken Harvest Cake

A quick and easy whisky cake that helps to use up all those bottom of the can fruits, you know the last 3-4 pieces that sit in the fridge until you use them or most likely toss them. Yeah, those get used up in this recipe.  Now mine are all home canned versions so they usually are in a vanilla or cinnamon syrup so I cut the cinnamon in half and leave out the vanilla when I use those versions.  Now if you rather not use booze on your dessert just leave it out and I will have two versions of the glaze to chose from. Pre- heat oven to 350

Ingredients:

2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tbsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup organic sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup chia seeds
1 cup applesauce
1 cup diced canned fruit, drained, ( I literally dice up what's left in the fridge when there are at least 2 types sitting there which in our house is usually pears and apricots)
1/4 cup cinnamon whisky (optional)

Glaze
1/2 cup confectioners sugar
2-4 tbsp. Cinnamon whisky or syrup reserved from one of the cans of fruit

In large bowl mix together dry ingredients and put to side.
In another bowl mix together everything else for the cake and mix well, then pour into and mix into dry ingredients.  Now if the mix is a little dry (it's hard to account for the juice in the fruit) just add a little syrup from one of the cans of fruit, and of a little too soupy add a tbsp. of flour until consistency is cake batter appropriate.

In two cake rounds split the cake mix and bake for 20-25 minutes or until pin comes out clean. Here is where things get a little different.  If you are not adding whisky take cake out of oven to cool and remove from pan, drizzle glaze on once cool.

If adding whisky turn off oven but leave cakes in the oven to dry out a bit.  While the cakes wait for you mix the glaze up and separate the whisky into two parts.  After everything is mixed up pull out the cakes and with a skewer poke some holes all over your cakes (leave them in pan).  If you over poke your cake it will fall apart when you take it out of pan but it's really not an issue to leave it in pan so don't worry about it.  Then evenly pour one part of whisky to each cake.  Let soak in and then add glaze.  I prefer it warm but serve it anyway you like!

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