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Chocolate Red Wine Cake
This adult-version chocolate cake is a seriously delicious date-night treat!
👥 10 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 1h 30m⏳ Prep: 1h👤 Beth Branch📖 countryliving
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- ●pan
- ●bowl
- ●whisk
- ●oven
- ●knife
- ●saucepan
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Make the cakes: Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour two 8-inch round cake pans. Whisk together sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, oil, vanilla, and 1/2 cup wine. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until combined, 1 to ⏱️ 2 minutes. Transfer batter to prepared pans, dividing evenly.
large eggs2
2
Bake until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, 28 to ⏱️ 30 minutes. Cool in in pans ⏱️ 10 minutes, then invert onto wire racks to cool completely. Once cool, remove domed cake tops with a serrated knife, if desired. Brush tops of cakes with remaining 1/4 cup wine.
3
Make the ganache: Combine chocolate chips and cream in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Gently stir until chocolate is melted and smooth. Cool completely.
4
Make the buttercream frosting: Beat butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and creamy, 1 to ⏱️ 2 minutes. Beat in cocoa powder, chocolate chips, vanilla, and cream, scraping down sides as necessary, until combined. Add half of the confectioners’ sugar and mix until combined. Add remaining confectioners’ sugar; beat for ⏱️ 1 minute.
5
Place one cake layer on a cake stand or plate and top with 1 cup frosting, spreading it to the edge. Repeat two more times. Frost sides of cake. Drizzle ganache over the cake.
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