Just when I realized we had seven bottles of the stuff taking up too much space in the kitchen, I saw a recipe for chocolate cake made with some red wine, on the Smitten Kitchen blog. Perfect!
Then, just the other day, I found out that this Wednesday, the 27th, is National Chocolate Cake Day. Well. Can you guess what I did today?
This is a recipe for a nine inch, one layer cake, which is thinner than your average layer. Because of the wine flavor in it, Deb suggests either a topping made with mascarpone, or just a powdered sugar dusting. But my intention was to bring it to work, and there are nine of us on Wednesdays. I had to make two layers, didn't I? So what was I to put between the layers?
I didn't have mascarpone, and anyway, I didn't want something which would be fussy and require refrigeration. That expensive fig and chocolate spread I've seen in the store would be ideal, but - I didn't have that, either. I began to imagine a chocolate buttercream, but a soft one, with a bit of spice.
My Betty Crocker recipe for cocoa buttercream looked right: 1/3 cup of butter, 2 c. of xxx sugar, one tsp. vanilla, 1/3 cup of cocoa, and some milk. I suddenly got an idea to use a bit of plain greek yogurt for the milk - that was it! It's soft, and has a tang. Just right for between those layers, with some "snow" on top. Plain is best with this, I think.
Wednesday's the day!
What an interesting cake recipe. It really does sound (and look) yummy. I think I'm going to have to try this one soon . . . maybe Wednesday. : ) Although, who needs a special excuse to bake a cake? Not me!
ReplyDeleteoh, that is lovely!!!
ReplyDeleteWe'll see tomorrow how it tastes. :)
ReplyDeleteOoooh! Chocolate cake, period! ♥ I don't drink alcohol at all, but this sounds quite interesting. I've never heard of any cake recipes with wine as an ingredient. Yes, do tell tomorrow! I hope it's good.
ReplyDeletecan't wait to hear how it was--knowing the staff, I'm sure it was a hit
ReplyDeleteGail, you know us!
DeleteI have a chocolate liqueur cake recipe, but wine would be much different, and I like what you say about it not being too sweet...I am going to try this!
ReplyDelete(I hopped over here from roosje's blog)
This sounds so yummy! I would never have thought that wine could be added to a cake recipe.
ReplyDeleteSmitten Kitchen is a favorite blog of one of our daughters! I'm so glad I didn't know about this honor given to chocolate in time to observe it! I've little resistance where chocolate is concerned.:-)
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