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This week indulge in some decadence with a mouth-watering Red Wine Cake. Give those calorie counting a skip and celebrate the start of 2025 properly with this sweet dessert.
Perfect for enjoying with friends and family!
Red Wine Cake
Serves 8
Ingredients
500ml all-purpose flour
187.5ml unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch process)
6ml baking soda
2.5ml salt
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
437.5ml sugar
2 large eggs
5ml pure vanilla extract
312.5ml dry red wine
Icing sugar, for dusting
Whipped cream, for serving
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Butter and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan. In a bowl, whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
- In a large bowl, using a handheld electric mixer, beat the butter with the sugar at medium-high speed until fluffy, 4 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat until incorporated. Add the vanilla and beat for 2 minutes longer. Working in two batches, alternately fold in the dry ingredients and the wine, until just incorporated.
- Scrape the batter into the prepared pan, and bake for 45 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn it out onto a rack; let cool completely.
- Dust the cake with icing sugar and serve with whipped cream.
About Clover Mama Afrika
Clover Mama Afrika is a sustainable Corporate Social Investment project that has been in existence since 2001. Over the years the project has hosted 440 training sessions with more than 2313 beneficiaries. Teaching and guiding strong females (lovingly called ‘Mamas’ due to their standing in their neighbourhoods) in communities all over the country, in order to build their skills and sustain and improve their own community projects. Only the most committed are enrolled and these include women looking after orphans, the elderly and those suffering from HIV/Aids.