Pink Wine Chocolate Cake – Chocolate Coated Katie

This wealthy, moist, and extremely decadent crimson wine chocolate cake recipe is totally good for holidays, birthdays, and different particular events!

Pink wine chocolate cake is the flamboyant dessert you want to strive.

It’s simply as easy to make as an everyday chocolate layer cake, but it tastes like one thing you’d order at a sublime 5 star restaurant.

Impress your entire company with this velvety darkish chocolate wine cake, topped with a thick chocolate frosting. Individuals will assume you went to culinary college!

Additionally make this Chocolate Mug Cake

Watch the crimson wine chocolate cake video, above

Pink wine chocolate cake elements

You have to flour, cocoa powder, pure vanilla extract, sweetener, baking soda, salt, applesauce or yogurt, oil or almond butter, water, and naturally crimson wine.

The simple chocolate wine cake recipe works with spelt flour or white all goal flour. I’ve not tried it with every other flours and can’t vouch for the likes of complete wheat flour, gluten free flour, oat flour, or pastry flour.

There’s a low carb possibility listed within the recipe field. For greatest outcomes, don’t attempt to substitute almond flour or coconut flour right here.

For the three fourth cup of cocoa powder, you should use all common unsweetened cocoa powder or one fourth cup of Dutch cocoa powder and half a cup of normal.

To make a vegan crimson wine chocolate cake, use a dairy free yogurt or the applesauce. This cake is already naturally butter and egg free!

Use leftover wine to make Chocolate Sorbet

What sort of crimson wine?

When baking with wine, be happy to make use of your favourite crimson wine.

Do this darkish chocolate cake with merlot, cabernet sauvignon, zinfandel, syrah (or shiraz), Chianti, malbec, tempranillo, or pinot noir. Sturdy crimson wines will impart a bolder taste to chocolate crimson wine cake recipes.

I want the standard style of the chocolate cake with crimson wine, as a result of chocolate pairs so effectively with crimson wine. However if you wish to use white wine, that is nice as effectively.

Select a wide range of wine you get pleasure from, and possibly pour your self a glass of wine whereas baking. You should definitely drink responsibly.

How one can make a crimson wine chocolate cake

Begin by preheating your oven to 350 levels Fahrenheit. Grease two eight inch sq. or spherical pans. Or see beneath for baking directions in a Bundt pan.

In a big mixing bowl, stir the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, sweetener, and optionally available chocolate chips.

In case you are utilizing almond butter, gently warmth it if obligatory till simply stir-able. Mix it (or the oil) with the applesauce or yogurt, water, wine, and vanilla extract.

Pour the moist elements into the big bowl with the dry elements, and stir till simply evenly blended. Don’t over-mix.

Divide the chocolate cake batter evenly into the ready baking pans. If utilizing a meals scale, it needs to be round 550 grams of chocolate cake batter per pan.

Bake the dessert on the oven’s middle rack for twenty 5 minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the middle of a cake comes out largely clear.

Let cool, then go across the sides of the pans with a knife. Invert every cake onto a big plate. For a double layer chocolate wine cake, frost every cake individually earlier than inserting one on prime of the opposite after which frosting the perimeters.

Chocolate crimson wine Bundt cake

Should you want to use a Bundt pan as a substitute of two eight inch spherical cake pans, search for a Bundt cake pan that holds ten cups, resembling this 10 Cup Bundt Pan.

Be certain to grease your pan effectively earlier than including the cake batter.

Chocolate Bundt desserts typically require longer baking time. Insert a toothpick into the middle of the cake after baking for thirty minutes, and proceed to bake the cake if the toothpick doesn’t come out largely clear.

This crimson wine chocolate cake recipe will also be made in a single rectangular 9 by 13 inch pan as a substitute of two eight inch pans. Or halve the chocolate recipe for a single eight by eight inch pan.

Frosting and adorning the cake

I frosted the crimson wine cake with my Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting.

Any retailer purchased or home made chocolate frosting will do properly right here, as will a vanilla buttercream frosting. Or use cream cheese frosting for a chocolate crimson velvet cake.

If you wish to skip the icing utterly, strive topping the cake with a layer of chocolate ganache or sprinkle of powdered sugar and recent blueberries, strawberries, cherries, or raspberries. Darkish chocolate raspberry cake? Sure please.

Feeling glamorous? Let the chocolate ganache drip down the perimeters of the layer cake, and adorn the highest with just a few home made Chocolate Truffles.

The beauty of this recipe is that the desserts don’t rise significantly, which means there’s no want to chop off the highest earlier than layering one cake on prime of the opposite.

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