

Whether you are looking for the ultimate, elegant, decadent chocolate dessert for your holiday guests, or an indulgent treat for yourself and your family, this Darkest Chocolate Cake with Red Wine Glaze solves the problem.
Grab a pound of your best bittersweet chocolate and your 9-inch Springform pan and get this one in the oven.
There will be enough wine left over from the glaze for a glass or two for the cook, too. Always the mark of a good recipe.
Sweet!
The plummy-berry notes of red wine are highlighted when mixed with chocolate and butter into a glaze that drips over the edges of this decadent Darkest Chocolate Cake with Red Wine Glaze.
Ingredients
- Cake:
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus more for pan
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
- 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate (at least 70% cacao), chopped [I used Divine 70% Bittersweet Baking Chocolate]
- 1 cup sugar [I used Imperial Sugar]
- 4 large eggs
- 3/4 teaspoons kosher salt
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- Glaze and assembly:
- 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate (at least 70% cacao), finely chopped [I used Divine 70% Bittersweet Baking Chocolate]
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar [I used Imperial Sugar]
- 1/2 cup Cabernet Sauvignon wine [I used Epicurious Cabernet Sauvignon]
Directions
- For cake: Heat oven to 325°F. Lightly butter and flour a 9-inch Springform pan and set aside.
- Heat chocolate, sugar, and 1 cup butter in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water (bowl should not touch water), stirring, until chocolate is almost completely melted, about 3 minutes; remove from heat and continue to stir until chocolate is completely melted. Let cool completely.
- Using an electric mixer on medium speed, add eggs to chocolate mixture 1 at a time, beating to blend after each addition. Beat until mixture has a mousse-like consistency. Reduce speed to low and add salt and 1/3 cup flour; mix until smooth. Scrape batter into prepared pan; smooth top.
- Bake cake until top is firm and edges are slightly darkened, 55–65 minutes (rely on visual cues; a tester inserted into cake's center will come out clean before cake is truly done). Transfer pan to a wire rack and let cake cool completely in pan before turning out.
- For glaze and assembly: Heat chocolate, butter, and salt in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water (bowl should not touch water), stirring, until chocolate and butter are melted, about 5 minutes. Whisk in powdered sugar.
- Meanwhile, bring wine just to a boil in a small saucepan.
- Remove chocolate mixture from heat and whisk in wine; let cool until slightly thickened and a rubber spatula leaves a trail in mixture when stirring, 8–10 minutes.
- Set cake on a wire rack set over a rimmed baking sheet. Pour glaze over cake and spread it across the top and over the edges with an offset spatula. Let cake stand at room temperature until glaze is set, 2–3 hours.
- DO AHEAD: Cake can be made and glazed 2 days ahead. Chill. Bring to room temperature before serving.
- Serves 10.
Notes
Recipe source: Epicurious Wine. Used with permission.
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This post was originally published Dec. 4, 2016, and has been refreshed, improved and republished today.
Red wine and chocolate cake…oh, my! What a decadent and elegant cake to serve during the holidays!
Oh my gosh!!! This cake looks so rich and that red wine glaze is the perfect topping!
This cake needs to happen at my house very soon!!
Yummy! All this chocolate! I can’t say no to this!
Wow oh wow. This is a cake after my own heart!
OMG I am a dark chocolate lover and I am drooling over that cake. Yum yum
Renu,
Then this is the cake for YOU!
Red wine and chocolate are the perfect pair!
Love the red win glaze on this!
Pass me a big slice, please!!
This is my kind of dessert!
Note to self: Make cake first and THEN drink the wine, lol! This looks like chocolate perfection!
Jennifer,
I say just save out how much wine you need for the recipe! AmIright?
This chocolate cake looks so delicious!!!
Wow this cake looks seriously amazing!!!!
This looks so rich and decadent. Oh my gosh, I could go for a slice of this right now!
Oh. My. Goodness. This looks decadently perfect! Yum yum yum.
OMG this cake looks so decadent and dreamy!
it looks scrumptious!
It’s in the oven, baking as I type….
will make the glaze tomorrow morning and take to a party… can hardly wait!
Sally,
You are a baking BEAST! Yahoo!
So much chocolate! This looks wonderful!
I can’t get over how beautiful these photos are! Well done!
What an absolutely gorgeous cake!
Wow, this looks so incredible! What an instant classic!
I am all about the red wine and chocolate combo!
This cake looks absolutely sinful!
Dorothy–that glaze!! Holy Cow!! I am in love!!
I might need to make this and not share with anyone!
Oh ny gosh! That red wine glaze?! To die for!
Lordy, lordy that glaze looks AMAZING! drooling over here!
Anything with chocolate and red wine is an instant favorite!
I am all over this recipe… look at that glaze!
Pinning it right away, Dorothy! Perfect for the season…