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Red wine cake

Parduin restaurant Brandenburg

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Star shaped on Christmas, heart shaped on birthday; this type of cake is always special. Cakes made with butter and eggs at room temperature had a slightly finer. We recommend a dry red wine. But remember the cake will have a strong taste of the wine used in it, go for something that you like.

Ingredients

• 1 1/8 cups butter
• 1 1/4 cups white sugar
• 100 grams dark chocolate
• 5 free-range eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cocoa powder
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 cup and 2 tablespoons red wine
• 12 tablespoons icing sugar
• 1 medium sized orange
• Table salt

Instructions

• Grate the chocolate and separate the yolk from the egg white.
• In a large bowl, on the medium speed of an electric mixer, cream butter, sugar, chocolate and egg yolks until smooth.
• Add ground cinnamon, cocoa, flour, baking powder and beat well. Then add the red wine and cream until smooth.
• Beat the egg white with a pinch of salt until and fold in carefully.
• Grease six extra large star shaped cookie cutters and spread with bread crumbs inside.
• Now baking paper on a baking tray, then the prepared cutters and spread the batter in.
• Bake for about 50 - 60 minutes in a pre-heated oven at 175 degrees.
• In the meantime sieve the icing sugar, half and squeeze the orange and stir into the sugar.
• Let the cake cool down and pour orange-sugar glaze over cakes and spread it across the top.

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