Chocolate Wine Cake

Chocolate Wine Cake is an eggless whole wheat cake made in chocolate flavor and red wine. If you wish you can skip the wine and make it alcohol free. But I would highly recommend making it with wine.

After a no-bake dessert for V’s birthday, I get back to baking a cake for myself.

My biggest wish of all time is to have someone else bake a cake for me. I wish I could celebrate one more birthday at my mother’s place.

Till then I bake and cook for myself.

Ever since I cooked with wine a few weeks ago, I have been looking for opportunities to add wine to my creations.

I came across a Death by Chocolate Mousse Cake and decided to replace the water with red wine.

My initial plan was to top this cake with mousse as in the original recipe and enclose it in a chocolate collar, then due to limited time & resources, it was changed to topping with ganache and finally, that also didn’t happen and ended up sprinkling some powdered sugar.

This made the cake a simpler but nevertheless scrumptious version. I must say I didn’t regret it.

It is worthy of being touted as the best cake I made.

Also, I got a chance to practice ‘freezing motion’ shots with a sprinkling of sugar.

Over to the recipe.

Print Recipe

Chocolate Wine Cake

A healthy and super-moist whole wheat chocolate cake

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time30 minutes mins

Total Time40 minutes mins

Course: Baking, Snack

Cuisine: Vegetarian

Keyword: Bakery, chocolate, Coffee, cupcake, eggless

Servings: 9 inch round cake

Ingredients

• 1½ cup whole wheat flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 4 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 tbsp instant coffee granules
• ½ tsp salt
• ⅔ cup sugar
• 1½ tsp vanilla extract
• ⅓ cup olive oil or coconut oil
• 2 tsp white vinegar
• ¾ cup red wine
• 2-4 tbsp milk please see notes

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 190 °C. Grease and line a 9-inch spring-form pan or 8-inch square pan.
• Sift together the flour, cocoa, soda, salt, and sugar directly in a medium bowl. In a 2 cup measuring cup or small bowl, measure and mix together the oil, wine, coffee, and vanilla.
• Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix with a fork or a small whisk. When the batter is smooth, add the vinegar and stir quickly. The batter may look curdled as the baking soda and vinegar react. Don’t worry, it is normal. Stir just until the vinegar is evenly distributed throughout the batter.
• Pour it into the prepared pan and put it in the oven right away. Bake for 30 minutes and allow to cool in the pan.
• Remove and sprinkle with powdered sugar when ready to serve.

Notes

1. You can make it vegan by using coconut oil, and other vegan substitutes.
2. I found the batter to be very dry so I added 2 tablespoon of milk.
3. You can mix the dry ingredients in prepared baking pan and add liquid mixture. But I prefer preparing separately and pouring in the baking dish.
4. Coffee is added to intensify the chocolate flavor. It is a practice which I have been doing quite regularly now.
5. The cake is very fragile and tends to break easily. I recommend allowing it to cool in the pan completely and using a spring form pan. Also if you plan to serve it on a separate dish, then I suggest lining it too.
6. You can serve the cake without frosting plain or dusted with powdered sugar, or chocolate sauce/ glaze.