Purple Wine Chocolate Cake – Chocolate Lined Katie

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

Purple wine chocolate cake is the flamboyant dessert you could 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 all your friends with this velvety darkish chocolate wine cake, topped with a thick chocolate frosting. Folks will suppose you went to culinary faculty!

Additionally make this Chocolate Mug Cake

Watch the crimson wine chocolate cake video, above

Purple 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 straightforward chocolate wine cake recipe works with spelt flour or white all function flour. I’ve not tried it with some 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 utilize 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 at liberty 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 properly with crimson wine. However if you wish to use white wine, that is fantastic as properly.

Select quite a lot of wine you take pleasure in, and possibly pour your self a glass of wine whereas baking. You should definitely drink responsibly.

Methods to 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 under 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.

If you’re 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 must be round 550 grams of chocolate cake batter per pan.

Bake the dessert on the oven’s heart rack for twenty 5 minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the middle of a cake comes out principally 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 putting one on high 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, similar to this 10 Cup Bundt Pan.

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

Chocolate Bundt truffles 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 principally 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 contemporary 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 wonderful thing about this recipe is that the truffles don’t rise significantly, that means there’s no want to chop off the highest earlier than layering one cake on high of the opposite.

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