Torta Di Vino Rosso (red Wine Cake)

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 3/4 cups unsalted butter (3 1/2 sticks)
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 6 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup dry red wine
• 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 1/2 teaspoons natural cocoa powder
• 5 1/4 ounces chopped semisweet chocolate or 5 1/4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips

Recipe

• 1 cream butter and sugar in stand mixer. when light and fluffy, add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. add vanilla and wine.
• 2 in a large bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon and cocoa powder. add flour mixture to mixer bowl, 1/3 at a time, running on low and pausing while adding dry ingredients. mix until well-blended. remove bowl from mixer. add chocolate and fold in by hand.
• 3 spray one 10 1/2-inch or 2 9-inch cake pans with butter-and-flour baking spray, or butter and dust with cocoa powder. pour batter into pan(s).
• 4 bake in preheated 350f oven for 35-40 minutes or until skewer inserted in center comes out clean. cool in pan 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack until completely cool. if made as a single layer, dust top with confectioner's sugar in a small sieve. serve with small glasses of a red dessert wine.