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German Red Wine Chocolate and Pear Cake

Granny's Chocolate Red Wine & Pear Cake

My Oma’s never-fail recipe for this moist Chocolate & Red Wine Cake with Pears is a real family classic. The flavours of red wine, chocolate, pears and cinnamon marry beautifully and make this cake the perfect treat for cold fall and winter days.

Course Dessert
Cuisine German
Keyword chocolate cake with pears, German red wine and pear cake, red wine cake
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings 12 pieces
Calories 200 kcal
Author Kiki Johnson

Ingredients

  • 1/2 can tinned pears blotted dry
  • 250 g softened butter
  • 250 g sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 250 g flour sifted
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp cloves
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  • pinch of salt
  • 120-150 g grated dark chocolate set some aside for deco
  • 180 ml red wine

For the drizzle

  • 5 tbsp red wine
  • 5-6 tbsp tbsp powdered sugar

glaze

  • 200 g powdered sugar
  • red wine

Instructions

  1. Take 5 to 6 Pear halves from the can and drain then well. Pat them dry with kitchenpaper and half them lengthwise. Beat butter and sugar until white and fluffy. Add eggs, one after another. Mix flour, baking powder, cocoa and spices.
  2. Now taking turns, add each a tbsp of dry mix followed by a splash of wine to the butter mix until you've incorporated everything. 

  3. Fold in the rest of the grated chocolate and spread the batter into your bundt pan.
  4. Take the pears and put them into the dough lengthwise. Bake the cake at 175 C for 55 to 60 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean
  5. Take it out of the oven. Mix the 5 tbsp of wine and 5-6 tbsp of powdered sugar. Soak the still warm cake with this mixture using a brush and let the cake cool completely before unmolding it.

  6. Make the icing by stirring as much red wine into 200 g of powdered sugar until you have a thick glaze.

  7. Decorate the cake with glaze and chocolate