Shelly's Recipe

BLACKBERRY BRANDY SOUR CREAM JELL-O CAKE

Category: Cakes

6 tbsp black raspberry jello
1/2 cup blackberry flavor brandy, hot
1 cup sour cream
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
6 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp lemon extract
1/2 tsp almond extract
1/2 tsp rum extract
3 cups flour, all-purpose unsifted
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
Powdered sugar sifted, optional

Dissolve jello in hot brandy. Cool, then combine with sour cream. Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy; add eggs, one at a time beating well after each. Mix in vanilla, lemon extract, almond extract and rum flavoring.

Mix together dry ingredients and add alternately with the cooled jello mix to the butter-sugar mix; beat well after each addition. Bake in a well buttered and lightly floured 10" tube or Bundt pan in a preheated 350~F oven. Bake about 75 minutes. Cool in pan 20 minutes, turn out and finish cooling on rack. Dust with sifted powdered sugar if desired.