Red Wine Chocolate Cake / Chocolate Cake With Red Wine

Wow... This X-MAS vacation has put me in a baking overdrive, insprite the fact that it is super moist cake... I guess it's the feeling of festivity in the air... the desire of the smell of spices and cakes that makes it like this.... Here find how to prepare christmas recipe wine cake in simple way...

Yesterday, I wanted to bake something different, in my head I clearly wanted something chocolatey and something boozy, yet rum was too boring.. Tried this cake with red wine and chocolate.. I think it has the potential to be the star of any party.. Different from usual fruit cake yet has all the elements of the hoilday celebrations...

Here the cake is sprinkle with icing sugar on the top which gives delicious taste when we have it.. The flavour of red wine and cinnamon powder gives excellent aromatic taste to the cake... My kids loved it well.. You can prepare this cake in this X- MAS or NEW YEAR.. So i hope that you must try this recipe and let me know how it's turns out from you.....

Happy Christmas and New year...

Preparation time : 10 mins 

Baking time : 30 mins

Serve - 8 pieces

Recipe cuisine - American

Recipe source - sinamontales 

INGREDIENTS :

All purpose flour / Maida - 1 cup

Unsalted butter - 1/3 cup

Brown sugar - 1 cup (Demarara Sugar)

Egg - 1 

Red wine - 3/4 cup (you can go upto 1 cup)

Vanilla essence - 1 tspn

Cocoa powder - 4 tbspn

Baking powder - 1 tspn

Salt - 1/2 tspn

Cinnamon powder - 1/2 tspn (i use cinnamon sticks and blend it)

FOR TOPPING :

Icing sugar - as needed

METHOD :

• Preheat the oven to 180 degree C..
• Line the bottom of a round cake pan with parchment paper.
• Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder, cinnamon and salt together.. keep aside..
• In a large bowl, using the eletric beater, cream the butter and sugar together..
• Continue till light untill fluffy, about 3 - 4 mins..
• Add the egg and beat till well mixed.
• Add the red wine and vanilla, beat for another min or so..
• Fold in half the flour mixture.. When combained, fold the rest in...
• Spread batter in prepared pan.Bake it for 25 to 30 mins..
• Or untill a cake testerinserted into the canter comes out clean..
• Let it cool completely before serve..
• Sprinkle some icing suagr on the top of the cake and slice..
• Enjoy..

PICTORIAL :

Take all your ingredients

Now take flour in a sifter

Then add in cocoa powder

Then add in salt

Add in baking powder

Crushed cinnamon sticks

Sift it in a paper, keep aside

In a bowl add soften butter in large bowl

Brown sugar

Beat well till smooth

Now it's done

Add in egg

Beat well

Cream it well

Once it fluffy

Add in red wine

Some vanilla

Beat well

All are combained

Now done

Add in half of the flour mixture

Fold it gently

Add in remaining flour

Fold well

Now the batter is done

Line the round baking pan with parchment paper

Pour and spread the batter evenly

Pop it in the preheated oven

Now it's done

Slice the crispy layer of the cake

Allow to cool completely

Take chat paper 

Cut it into square

Cut it into long strips

Palce the cool cake in parchment paper

Line the chat paper stips like this

Another strips to cross it

Take a sifter over the cake 

Spoon some icing sugar 

Drizzled over the cake

Sprnkle all the sides

Now it's ready

Now carefully remove the one side of the chat paper

Now another stips too

See how the cake is..

Wow... mum mum mumm

Yummy

Slice and serve

Enjoy..