{"id":889,"date":"2010-01-24T19:27:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T00:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/?p=889"},"modified":"2010-01-24T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T03:54:08","slug":"an-update-and-a-romantic-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/an-update-and-a-romantic-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"An Update and a Romantic Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"

My blog, how I have missed it so! I feel like I haven’t cooked in forever, and I know I haven’t updated this poor blog in forever. I feel like my kitchen is almost a stranger to me at this point. We’ve even bought a few pieces of the cherished Le Creuset since I updated last, but the sad part is I haven’t even used it yet! Don’t worry, it has been broken in a few times, but unfortunately for me, it’s been by my husband.\u00a0 I will get there though, eventually.<\/p>\n

My absence is for good reason though; I got a job! Not only did I get a job, but I got a fabulous job that I am loving so much. The only downside is that my free time has been non-existent, which means my hobbies have been put on the back burner. The good news is that I have every intention of figuring out how to manage my time to where I can put my all into this fabulous new job and still have time to do the things I love, like cook and blog. So please hang in there with me because I promise there will be more fabulous stuff to come.<\/p>\n

With that all said, it is now time to share with you a recipe that I have been holding on to now since December!\u00a0 I think this is the perfect time to pass it along though because it would be a great choice for that little romantic holiday we have coming around the corner. It is something that I saw in a Food & Wine magazine and it intrigued me from the first moment I spotted it.\u00a0 Red wine, chocolate and whipped cream; need I say more?? I think that has romance written all over it! Did I mention that those ingredients resulted in a cake? Yes, a divinely decadent cake. The best part about it is that it is very simple to make, but will wow a crowd (or just that someone special – whichever you choose).<\/p>\n

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Chocolate Red Wine Cake<\/h2>\n

Courtesy of Epicurious and Food & Wine<\/a><\/p>\n

2 cups (250 g\/1\/2 lb) flour
\n3\/4 cup (100 g\/3 1\/4 oz) cocoa
\n1 1\/4 teaspoons baking soda
\n1\/2 teaspoon salt
\n3\/4 cup (175 g\/6 oz) butter
\n1 3\/4 cup (350 g\/15 oz) sugar
\n2 eggs
\n1 teaspoon vanilla
\n1 1\/4 cups (300 ml\/1\/2 pt) well-rounded red wine
\nconfectioners’ sugar (for dusting)<\/p>\n

Wine Jelly
\n1\/2 cup (125 g\/4 oz) Concord grape jelly
\n2 to 3 tablespoons red wine<\/p>\n

Heat the oven to 350\u00b0F (175\u00b0C\/Gas 4). Butter the 9 inch cake pans, line each pan with a round of parchment paper, and brush again with butter. Sprinkle the pans with flour, discarding the excess.<\/p>\n

Sift flour with the cocoa, baking soda, and salt into a bowl; set aside. Cream the butter in an electric mixer, beat in the sugar, and continue beating until the mixture is light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the eggs, one by one, and then the vanilla, and continue beating 1 to 2 minutes. Sift a third of the flour over the butter mixture and fold them together, using a spoon. Fold in a third of the wine. Add the remaining flour and wine alternately in two batches.<\/p>\n

Spread batter in the prepared pans and bake in the oven until the cakes start to shrink from the sides of the pan, 30 to 35 minutes; a metal skewer inserted in the center should come out clean. Let the cakes cool 10 minutes in the pans, then turn them out on a rack to cool completely.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile make the wine jelly: Melt the jelly with the wine over low heat, stirring gently until combined. Let it cool.<\/p>\n

Shortly before serving, sandwich the cake with the cooled jelly. Sprinkle the top with confectioners’ sugar and transfer the cake to a plate to serve. Top with whipped cream and and a little drizzle of wine jelly if you desire!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My blog, how I have missed it so! I feel like I haven’t cooked in forever, and I know I haven’t updated this poor blog in forever. I feel like my kitchen is almost a stranger to me at this point. We’ve even bought a few pieces of the cherished Le Creuset since I updated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27,9,3,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake","category-chocolate","category-desserts","category-easy","category-wine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}