This recipe makes a delicious, moist cake, perfect for a chilly fall evening or as a holiday dessert.
On the Ingredients
- Mulling spices are a combination of spices used for mulled wine, mulled cider, wassail, or hippocras. These drinks are commonly enjoyed during late autumn and winter and are served hot. Mulling spices usually include cinnamon, peppercorns, nutmeg, ginger root, cloves, star anise, and sometimes cardamom, allspice, and orange peel.
Chocolate Mulled Wine Cake (Vegan)
Servings
8
servingsPrep time
30
minutesCooking time
35
minutesTotal time
1
hour5
minutesThis recipe makes a delicious, moist cake, perfect for a chilly fall evening or as a holiday dessert.
Ingredients
- Mulled Wine Ingredients
1 bottle of vegan red wine
1/4 cup mulling spices
1/2-1 cup brown sugar (to preference)
- Cake Ingredients
1 1/2 cups mulled wine
1 2/3 cup light brown sugar
2/3 cup safflower oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
2 cups + 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
2/3 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
Directions
- Combine wine, spices, sugar, and oranges (if using) in a medium saucepan. Heat over a medium-low burner until the wine barely begins to simmer.
- Turn off the heat and let it sit for fifteen minutes. Strain out the spices. Use 1 1/2 cups for the cake. Save the rest to drink warm at leisure.
- Preheat oven to 350° F and thoroughly grease a bundt pan.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the red wine, sugar, oil, vanilla, and vinegar.
- In a separate large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and whisk only until there are no lumps.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 35 minutes until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Wait ten minutes before gently removing the cake from the pan.
