Chocolate Cake
Chocolate cake is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the chocolate cake category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 180 g butter
- 200 g sugar
- 1 packet vanilla sugar
- 6 Eggs
- 30 g cocoa powder
- 50 g starch
- 100 g Ground Almonds
- 100 g butter
- 50 g sugar
- 30 g cocoa powder
- 150 g apricot jam
- 200 g dark chocolate couverture
- white chocolate (pre-made)
Instructions
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1.
Beat butter with 150 g sugar and vanilla sugar until fluffy. Separate eggs, gradually fold in yolks. Sift cocoa and starch over mixture, add almonds. Beat egg whites with remaining sugar to stiff peaks, fold into batter. Line cake pan with parchment paper, pour batter, smooth top, bake at 180°C fan for about 45 minutes. Remove and cool.
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2.
For filling, whisk butter, sugar and cocoa until fluffy. Cut cake base horizontally twice, spread cream between layers, reassemble. Strain apricot jam, mix with 1 tbsp water, brush around cake. Melt chocolate couverture in double boiler, coat cake, lay chocolate sheets on top and let set.
