A luxurious Cake for the winter holidays! A noble, fragrant and very light-tasting cake!

A luxurious mulled wine cake for winter holidays is made by preparing a chocolate sponge base, reducing the ingredients for a 20 cm diameter cake. The sponge uses flour, cocoa, baking powder, optional cinnamon, eggs, salt, vanilla sugar, sugar, vegetable oil, milk, and boiling water, baked at 175 °C for 45–50 minutes. The mulled wine layer is made from thawed berries, prunes, spices, orange peel, tea bags, boiling water, cinnamon, corn starch, sugar, cold water, and a few drops of rum essence. The cream filling combines orange peel, orange juice, sugar, eggs, cold butter, gelatin, cold cream, vanilla sugar, powdered sugar, cream cheese, and mascarpone, with an additional milk soak for the cake layers. For decoration, a stable butter‑condensed‑milk cream is prepared, optionally flavored with cocoa. The final cake is assembled by layering the sponge, mulled wine mixture, and cream, then chilled before serving.