Bloody Mary is a popular cocktail made up of tomato juice, addition of the spirit vodka, and combinations of spices and flavourings including worcestershire, tabasco and  horseradish sauces, celery, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, lemon juice, and celery salt. It has sometimes been called the world’s most complex cocktail.

One of the earliest claimants to inventing the Bloody Mary cocktail was Fernand Petiot, who claimed to have invented the Bloody Mary in 1921, well before any of the later claims, while working at the New York Bar in Paris, which later became Harry’s New York Bar, a frequent Paris hangout for Ernest Hemingway and other American expatriates. ~Wikipedia

In my family, the cocktail, Bloody Mary, is a much-loved lunch cocktail during family gatherings and lunch parties. Both the ladies and gents are fond of this tart drink. I do add a good bit of lemon juice and tabasco to spice it. The best part is the glass rimmed with salt.

So here I’m trying to convert this cocktail into my cake series, though this turned out to be more of a savoury bread. The sundried tomato and the celery gave it a bite and the various sauces gave it a distinct punch. The sundried tomato paste gave the cake a lovely reddish hue. It could be eaten with the cocktail itself with various dips or as a snack on its own slaughtered with butter or cream cheese.

I am a cocktail kind of girl. Maybe the sweetness of the chilled alcoholic beverage is what appeals to me. Wine I find sour, Beer I find bitter and of course Whiskey takes bitterness to another level for me, I’m unashamed to say. I’ve tasted most of the sweet flavoured cocktails and I love most of them.

In my throes of culinary inventiveness, I dreamed up my series of cakes tasting like my favourite cocktails. Developing the recipes, I realised that all the goodness of fresh fruit, dried fruit and herbs was being used to flavour my cakes. So, in fact they are nutritious cakes.  To add the alcohol or not is an option. I’ve kept the base cake recipe the same, adding flavourings and alcohol according to the cocktail I was being inspired by. The Bloody Mary Cocktail cake is the only savoury one in this long list of Cocktail inspired cakes.

My post on the series of cocktail flavoured cakes can be read on Cocktail in a Cake.

Bloody Mary Cocktail Cake

Ingredients ~

5 tbsp olive oil
300 gms flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
300 ml milk
2 tbsp concentrated tomato paste
1 tsp tobasco sauce
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
25 gms Sundried tomatoes
1 stalk Celery
¼ cup Vodka

Method ~

1. Beat the egg, olive oil, concentrated tomato paste, tobasco sauce, worcestershire sauce together.
2. To the batter add the finely chopped sundried tomatoes and celery stalk.
3. Add the milk and the vodka to the batter.
4. Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda and fold into the batter.
5. Pour the batter into a greased and floured baking tin.
6. Bake at 160*C for 25-30 minutes or till done.
7. Decorate with celery leaves and tomato slices.