Chocolate Red Wine Cake with Strawberry Filling

Red wine and chocolate are like a match made in heaven. This chocolate cake with a strawberry filling is just what you need to celebrate Spring!

This chocolate cake with strawberries and red wine is made for spring.

Strawberries and red wine really make this cake sing…not to mention me. J

ust keep in mind that by using fresh strawberries, this cake should be eaten within a few days or refrigerated. Of course, that shouldn’t be a problem!

Oh no. Have you heard about the worldwide chocolate shortage?

It’s true, and in case you haven’t, you can read about it here.

This is bad news for chocolate bunny lovers and chocolate brownie lovers and chocolate chip cookie lovers and well…me.

I am a chocolate lover and there is almost nothing a handful of chocolate chips won’t cure.

I am in deep do-do when the craving hits and often go through withdrawals.

Thank goodness even Weight Watchers now allows for chocolate.

For some folks, lemon might signal the sign of Spring and for others it is asparagus.

For some it might be peas or strawberries. For me it is seeing chocolate bunnies lining the grocery store shelves or those chocolate Cadbury eggs, that I have yet to have.

I also adore the chocolate malted milk eggs and those robin eggs in the bright turquoise color, that have the crackly shell and are filled with chocolate.

Yes, these to me, are the true signs of Spring.

As a  a good Jewish girl, loving Easter candy is something my parents probably started.

You see as kids, there was always an in house Easter egg hunt- I guess so the neighbors wouldn’t see- and there was always a chocolate bunny waiting for its head to be bitten off.

Yes, my folks came through on the chocolate.

For better, not worse, we did not continue the Easter egg hunt when our kids were young.

I can remember Alex Odie San China Boy wondering what a bunny had to do with Easter and what was with hunting for eggs when he thought it would be so much better to hunt for rabbits.

I’d always relate it back to hunting for matzoh, though there are good explanations for this.   

Zoe would then chime in, “those bunnies are just so cute.” until then one year I broke down and got them one, (on the day after Easter), and they were astounded that I did.  

They then bit the head off and left the body to sit in their rooms for days on end, until I unceremoniously, threw them away.

That was the end of the Easter bunny in our house!

But back to chocolate as chocolate is always a good thing, is it not?

In my house, my favorite quote kind of goes like this… “In the beginning, the Lord created chocolate, and he saw that it was good. Then he separated the light from the dark, and it was better.”

No, I did not write that-I took it from a chocolate site.

And I took this one too. “My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M’s and a chocolate cake. I feel better already,” said Dave Barry.

Now it is Easter and the stores are lined with Easter bunnies, which makes me think chocolate, and chocolate makes me think cake, and if I did want to lump chocolate in with a few other favorites, I might choose red wine-which goes perfectly with chocolate.

And then add in strawberries, because  if all three are eaten together their health quotient increases considerably. Just sayin’.

This chocolate cake with strawberries is divine. Forget the chocolate Easter bunny.

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I prefer a 9″ cake pan with removable bottoms. Mine were my grandmother’s and have lasted all these years. They are similar to these.

My favorite spatula is starting to show some wear. I like the middle one here and may give it a try. 

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