Ultimate Chocolate Cake!

maa-chan
maa-chan @cook_3577170
Spain

I made this for my aunt's birthday for her to taake to her workplace. Everyone loved it!

Ultimate Chocolate Cake!

I made this for my aunt's birthday for her to taake to her workplace. Everyone loved it!

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Ingredients

1 mins
12 servings
  1. strawberry jam (or anyother jam you may like)
  2. 1 tbspchocolate powder
  3. cake
  4. 150 grams70% dark chocolate
  5. 120 gramsall-purpose flour
  6. 150 gramssugar
  7. 4eggs
  8. 120 gramsunsalted butter
  9. 10 gramsbaking powder
  10. light syrup
  11. 100 gramsgranulated sugar
  12. 1 cupwater
  13. 1/4brandy
  14. chocolate icing
  15. 150 grams70% dark chocolate
  16. 150 gramsheavy cream
  17. 75 gramsunsalted butter

Cooking Instructions

1 mins
  1. 1

    Cake: melt 20g of butter and add the chocolate. Stir until it melts. Take off heat and mix in the rest of the butter. Pre-heat oven at 180°C.

  2. 2

    Beat the yolks with the sugar until white and fluffy. Stir in chocolate.

  3. 3

    Add the flour (previously sieved(, the chocolate powder and the baking powder.

  4. 4

    Beat the egg whites until hard peaks and add carefully with circular movements.

  5. 5

    Bake for 35-30min and let it cool down.

  6. 6

    Syrup: put the water and the sugar to boil. Once boiling add the brandy and let it boil for 4 minutes.

  7. 7

    Once the cake is cold, slice it and with a brush paint the insides with the brandy-syrup until both are soaked in it.

  8. 8

    Put the mermelade in the bottom slice and softly put the other one on top.

  9. 9

    Chocolate icing. Melt the 20 grams if butter and add the chocolate. Stir untill it melts. Then quickly take off the stove and mix in the cream and the butter until there are no lumos nor white.

  10. 10

    Cover cake with the icing and decorate as wanted (strawberries, white chocolate...)

  11. 11

    It doesn't have to raise much, just a bit, as seen on the picture below.

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I'm from Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), I lived in China for almost 2 years, 6 months in Switzerland. I found my passion for cooking when need forced me to take over the kitchen at home!
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