This red wine cake tastes so moist, fluffy and soft. It is also very aromatic. You can bake it in a loaf pan or any other baking pan. The red wine cake recipe is pretty easy and quick. The cake is perfect for dessert during the week or for a special occasion.
Course Dessert
Cuisine French
Prep Time 25 minutesminutes
Cook Time 45 minutesminutes
Servings 10
Equipment
25 cm x 10 cm loaf pan
Ingredients
150mlred wine
100gwhite chocolatemelted and cooled down
250gbutterroom warm
150gpowdered sugar
4eggs
250gflour
8gbaking powder
1tspcocoa powder
1tspcinnamon
8gvanilla sugar
butter to grease the loaf pan
flour for dusting the loaf pan
for the glaze
130gpowdered sugar
approx. 30mlred wine
Instructions
Grease the loaf pan with butter and dust with flour, tapping off the excess flour.
Beat soft butter together with powdered sugar and vanilla sugar for about 5 minutes until creamy and fluffy.
Add eggs one at a time, beating each time until homogeneous.
Add red wine as well as melted white chocolate and mix until homogeneous.
Mix flour with cocoa powder, baking powder and cinnamon, add it to the red wine mixture and mix briefly to form a viscous batter.
Pour the batter into the loaf pan, smooth it out and bake the cake in a preheated oven at 180 °C top and bottom heat for about 45 minutes. Let the red wine cake cool down in the loaf pan and take it out afterwards.
Preparation of the glaze
Put powdered sugar in a bowl, add red wine gradually, stirring until you get a viscous pink glaze.
Pour the sugar glaze over the top of the red wine cake and let it dry briefly.
Notes
You can adjust the amount of powdered sugar for the batter to taste.
Instead of white chocolate, you can use milk or dark chocolate. In this case you can increase the amount of powdered sugar.
Instead of melting chocolate, you can chop it coarsely.
Do not stir the batter too long, but only briefly until it has a homogeneous consistency.
To bake the pound cake, you need an approx. 25 cm x 10 cm loaf pan.
Use a wooden skewer to check if the red wine cake is done baking.
Do not bake the cake longer than necessary or it may taste dry and not moist.
The time to cool the cake is not included in the preparation time.
Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the red wine cake at the top of the post.