INGREDIENTS
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Red Wine Chocolate Cake
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2 cups flour
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2 cups sugar
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3/4 cup Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa powder
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2 tsp baking soda
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1 tsp salt
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2 large eggs
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1 cup buttermilk
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1 cup vegetable oil
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1 tsp vanilla
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1 cup sweet red wine
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Raspberry Buttercream
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1/2 cup salted butter
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1/2 cup shortening*
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2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
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1/4 cup raspberry puree (from about 1/2 cup of raspberries pureed in a food processor)
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Chocolate Buttercream
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1 cup butter
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1 cup shortening
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3/4 cup dark cocoa powder
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6 cups powdered sugar
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1 tsp vanilla extract
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4-5 tbsp milk or water
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Chocolate Ganache
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6 oz (about 1 cup) semi-sweet chocolate chips
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1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
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1/4 cup sweet red wine
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Additional ingredients and tools
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Raspberries for top of cake**
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Chocolate Wilton Candy Melts or something similar, like Chocolate Almond Bark
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Piping bags
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Wilton tips 3 and 10
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Large round piping tip
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"Hello" pdf
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Parchment paper
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Toothpicks
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9 inch offset spatula