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Simple, juicy and delicious: you can find the recipe for a classic red wine cake here.
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November 15th is Gugelhupf Day
Today we are celebrating a very special cake or rather a specific cake shape?
A Gugelhupf is also a yeast cake with raisins, which is baked in a special wreath shape.
But also any other cake of this shape.
Today I'm just going with the latter: What looks like Gugelhupf is actually Gugelhupf - full stop.
That's why we have this delicious red wine cake recipe to celebrate the day.
This classic cake is really suitable for every occasion.
It's quick to prepare with just a few ingredients and really tastes good to everyone.
It's also perfect if you want to use up leftover red wine.
There should definitely be one in one or two households... not in mine 😅.
That's how it's done:
You only need a few ingredients:
250 g butter, soft
200g sugar
1 pack vanilla sugar
4 eggs
250 g flour
1 pack of baking powder
20 g baking cocoa
1 pinch of cinnamon
1 pinch of salt
125 ml red wine
200 g grated chocolate (dark)
Powdered sugar for dusting
The preparation is very easy:
Preheat oven to 160 °C fan oven.
Grease a Bundt cake tin with a little butter and dust with flour.
Shake off excess flour.
For the dough:
Beat soft butter with sugar and vanilla sugar using the beaters of a hand mixer.
Gradually stir in eggs.
Mix the flour, baking powder, cocoa, cinnamon and salt in a second bowl and add to the dough.
Stir in.
Pour in the red wine in a thin stream until a homogeneous dough is formed.
Finally, fold in the grated chocolate.
Pour the dough into the prepared pan and smooth it out.
Bake for about 50 minutes until the cake is cooked through and no more dough remains stick to a wooden skewer (stick test).
Allow to cool and remove from the mold.
Before serving, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Relish.
I'll also have a piece of this delicious red wine cake!
You can find the recipe here.
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Which red wine for the perfect red wine cake?
Red wine © dpa
As the saying goes: Take a good glass of wine and pour it into the cook... er, the cake?
Basically, with this recipe it doesn't really matter which wine you use.
As already described at the beginning, the red wine cake recipe is great for leftover wine.
But if you want to get the most out of this sponge cake (and impress your guests), then you should choose
dry or semi-dry wines
.
Because the higher the tannin content in the wine, the spicier your cake will be.
This is the case, for example, with a red Pinot Noir.
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