Portuguese Palate: Cake Oporto

Cake Oporto before the I added the glaze

This is another recipe from Cooking With a Portuguese Flavor.  I made some minor additions to the recipe and they are noted with an asterisk (*).   The cake is not overly sweet and tastes somewhat like a muffin.  It is a great substitute for coffee cake.

Ingredients
½ cup butter (softened)
½ cup sugar
3 eggs
1 cup white flour
1 cup whole wheat flour * (original recipe used just white flour)
½ teaspoon Salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup Port Wine
½ cup chopped walnuts
1/3 cup raisins
¼ cup almond milk * (I’m sure regular milk would work just as well)
2 tablespoons fresh squeezed orange juice *
1 teaspoon of grated orange rind *

1. Cream the butter and sugar until light. Add the eggs and mix until combined.
2. Sift the flour, salt and baking powder in a separate bowl.  Slowly add flour mixture alternating between adding flour and port.  Next add almond milk, mix until combined. Add orange juice and orange rind.  Stir until combined.
3. With a spatula stir in raisins and  walnuts.
4. Pour dough into a greased 8 inch square baking pan. Bake at 350 F for 25-30 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Optional- Orange Glaze
Using the left over fresh squeezed orange juice, make a glaze by mixing orange juice and powdered sugar.  In order to make a glaze that is not too runny, slowly add orange juice to powdered sugar, stirring constantly so that you can determine the consistency of the glaze.  I also added ¼ teaspoon of port to my glaze.