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Chocolate Red Wine Cake
March 5, 2016 by Laura 9 Comments
Chocolate Red Wine Cake is a fantastic twist on a simple chocolate bundt cake: rich, not at all too sweet, a little tangy and seriously chocolatey; everyone who tried this loved it!
I have been wanting to make a chocolate red wine cake for a long time now. Something about the combo sounded really good and really right to me–and I see them around enough that I knew my instincts had to have some basis in fact. Much like serving red wine with red meat, chocolate is an ingredient that can stand up to red wine, and vice versa, allowing each to complement the other.
Red wine is an interesting ingredient–it hold no appeal for me straight, but it makes so many…
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