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    Home > Recipes > Cakes & Cupcakes

    Dark Chocolate Red Wine Cake

    ↓ Jump to Recipe · By: Julia Foerster · Posted: 09/14/15 · Updated: 09/24/17 · This post may contain affiliate links

    Dark Chocolate Red Wine Cake combines all those delicious red wine flavors with your favorite chocolate!

    This Dark Chocolate Red Wine Cake is probably the most baked cake in our family! Perfect combination of red wine flavors and chocolate.

    This Dark Chocolate Red Wine Cake is probably the most baked cake in our family! I can’t emphasize enough how much I love this cake. The perfect counterpoint between red wine and chocolate.

    A nice memory of my childhood: My mother baking a red wine cake, me helping out and later dipping it in some milk and eating it. The steps to make one are fairly simple, which makes this perfect as a surprise for your wife, even if you don’t normally bake.

    This Dark Chocolate Red Wine Cake is probably the most baked cake in our family! Perfect combination of red wine flavors and chocolate.

    You can take any kind of red wine, don’t be scared it will not taste like alcohol when the cake comes out of the oven. The red wine makes it really flavourful and because all the alcohol vaporizes while baking it’s also safe for kids to eat.

    A variation which we often make in the winter time is replacing the normal red wine with mulled wine like in our German Mulled Wine Cake. Perfect for Christmas!

    – Peter

    This Dark Chocolate Red Wine Cake is probably the most baked cake in our family! Perfect combination of red wine flavors and chocolate.

    Top-down shot of a loaf of red wine cake cut into slices. There's a glass of red wine, a cork and some forks next to it.
    Servings: 12

    Red Wine Cake Recipe

    This Dark Chocolate Red Wine Cake is probably the most baked cake in our family!
    Prep Time: 10 minutes
    Cook Time: 50 minutes
    Total Time: 1 hour
    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: German
    Calories: 363kcal
    Author: Julia Foerster
    5 from 1 vote
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    Ingredients

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    • 4 large eggs, room temperature
    • 1 cup granulated sugar
    • 3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
    • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
    • 1/2 cup red wine
    • 2 cups all-purpose flour
    • 2 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
    • 1 tsp cinnamon
    • 2 tsp baking powder
    • 1 tsp rum
    • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
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    Instructions

    • Preheat the oven to 350F (180C). Lightly grease a loaf pan.
    • In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the sugar and butter for 2 minutes. Add the eggs and vanilla extract and mix until well incorporated.
    • In a separate bowl mix the flour with cocoa powder, cinnamon, and baking powder.
    • Add the rum and red wine to the sugar-egg mixture. Then add the flour mixture. Don’t overbeat the batter, only mix until everything is well incorporated.
    • Add the chocolate chips and pour the batter into the loaf pan. Bake for 45-50 minutes, a skewer should come out clean with only a few crumbs or melted chocolate attached.
    • Let the cake sit in the loaf pan for 15 minutes then transfer to a cooling rack and let completely cool off.
    • Sprinkle powdered sugar over the cake or glaze with chocolate.

    Nutrition Information

    Calories: 363kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 86mg | Sodium: 26mg | Potassium: 241mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 441IU | Calcium: 63mg | Iron: 2mg
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    Comments

    1. G says

      March 14, 2019 at 4:34 am

      I’m actually looking forward to trying this recipe!!
      But, can I use chopped dark chocolate instead of chocolate chips?

      Reply
      • Julia says

        March 14, 2019 at 7:40 pm

        Yes, you can!

        Reply
    2. Marc Lure says

      April 20, 2016 at 1:17 pm

      I’ve never tried red wine cake before. It looks so soft and chocolaty. Now is the time!

      Reply

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